-=PCTechTalk=- Re: help,bluescreen yikes

  • From: Gman <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:26:21 -0400

Cristy,
    Sigh!!!  Your mind has it completely right and they did it wrong.  Your 
system is NOT running in dual-channel mode and they absolutely should know 
better than to sell you a single stick and put it in besides the older 
memory that's already out of whack.  What was needed here is to remove all 
older memory and "replace" it with a pair of matched sticks.  I have no idea 
what you paid for their 'services', but I'll bet it was more expensive than 
the memory available for your system at the newegg link I sent you. 
:O(

    Sorry if I seem a bit ticked, but "Geeky Squad" appears to have struck 
again.

Peace,
Gman

"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "cristy" <poppy0206@xxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 7:47 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: help,bluescreen yikes


> Gman,
>
> I bought more memory today and had "geeky squad" put it in for me as I 
> could
> not get the "bleeping" cover off the computer for one thing.  They did the
> same thing I was trying to do to get it off, I just could not though.
>
> I got frustrated with it, I was going to try to install it myself so I can
> learn how to do it and not pay someone to do it for me.  Anyhow, I watched
> him do it.  The guy had to ask another guy though about where to put it so
> that had me not feeling so good.  Below is what Belarc tells me I  have 
> now.
> They are still not matched though are they?  How do I know now if they are
> running on dual or single?  He told me as long as the new memory (1 gig) 
> was
> the closest to something in the computer that it would run dual or 
> fastest,
> I don't know.  Would the below be slots 1-4 with the top one being slot 1?
> The memory was not cheap either.  But I am hoping this helps.  I cannot 
> tell
> any diff now.  I am going to be working on "tweaking" trying to disable 
> some
> things during start up and all that good stuff.
>
>
> BELARC REPORT:
>
> Slot 'CHANNEL A DIMM 0' has 1024 MB
> Slot 'CHANNEL B DIMM 0' has 256 MB
> Slot 'CHANNEL A DIMM 1' has 256 MB
> Slot 'CHANNEL B DIMM 1' has 512 MB
>
> In my mind, matched pairs would be like this below?  Or would it?
>
> Slot 'CHANNEL A DIMM 0' has 1024 MB
> Slot' CHANNEL B DIMM 0' has 0 MB
> Slot 'CHANNEL A DIMM 0 has 1024 MB
> Slot 'CHANNEL B DIMM 0' has 0 MB
>
> Or
>
> Slot 'CHANNEL A DIMM 0' has 256 MB
> Slot' CHANNEL B DIMM 0' has 512 MB
> Slot 'CHANNEL A DIMM 0 has 256 MB
> Slot 'CHANNEL B DIMM 0' has 512 MB
>
> thanks, 


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