-=PCTechTalk=- Re: help,bluescreen yikes

  • From: "Lilian" <lilian.oswaldocruz@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:27:41 -0300

I´ve been following this thread passionately... could be called "Quest for the 
divine memory" <bg>  Its unbeleivable that technicians in one of USA´s top 
stores can do such a shoddy job!  All they did was fill the slots with odd 
sticks...
Christie, matched pairs are two identical memory sticks, same size, same make 
and factory checked to see if they are really completely alike.  Yes, Gman... 
sigh...  :o)

Lil


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Gman 
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: 2008-07-26 21:26
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: help,bluescreen yikes


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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