[_E_]

Well, here goes. I installed a 256 Mb PC2100 DDR RAM into the second slot of my mobo today but it doesnt seem to be indentified by windows or the BIOS. Yet, when I checked SisSandra - it did seem to locate and identify the second RAM slot. This is wierd, and I couldn't tell if they are clocked at the same speed or not. Any ideas? :eyemove:

Yours,
-Elly

 

[Dogmaan]

Is it the same speed as your other stick of ram? because if the speeds dont match, i think the mobo defaults to the slowest stick of ram, also some makes of ram are incompatible with each other, so its best to get 2 sticks from the same company.Have you tried swapping the sticks around, or taking out the stick in slot 1 to make sure slot2 actually works.

 

[KanedA]

of course you don't mix DDR's with SDRAM's?

Dogmaan... never heard about it... I had few times few sticks of ram that were for example one PC2100 and one PC3200 and both stics were identified correctly...

 

[Grv]

Elly is lucky I can't get to work mad: ) atm.

You're mixing Unregistered memory (PC2100U) with Registered memory (PC2100R). You can't interchange those.

 

[Esturk]

I used to mix PC100 with PC133 all the time. All the PC100 I ever had ran at 133Mhz, so it was all good. I've also ran DDR333 at DDR400 with no problems.

 

[Seta-San]

try reseating the RAM. it might not be clipped down all the way. also make sure there's no dust or large particles blocking one of the connecters.

 

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Blah, it was like what Gaurav said. I went back to the store and got back a 128 DDR RAM stick instead -_- ( they don't have any DDR226 rams anymore, so eh...better than nothing I suppose.). The new stick works now , it should do till I decide to upgrade my mobo/cpu.

Yours,
-Elly