-=PCTechTalk=- Re: memory question
- From: Gman <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 22:58:24 -0400
Well, it looks like you'll get to practice your 'case opening whack' method
sooner than expected. This is why the majority of techs fire up the system
and test out the new parts prior to putting the case back together.
Mainboard makers indicate the separation of channels by color coding the
memory slots (blue slots for one channel and black ones for the other, for
example). For a great majority of them, slots 1 & 3 are for the first while
slots 2 & 4 make up the second channel. While you may have put the second
1GB stick into the 3rd slot, it apparently is not wired within the mainboard
as "slot 3". Surprised? So am I, but it's not the first time I've heard of
such a thing. It just means that you'll need to remember that your slots
are set up as:
Slot 1
Slot 3
Slot 2
Slot 4
starting from the one closest to the CPU. It's normally done with them
split (the way they are installed right now) to help cut down on heat
build-up. So, you're not back to square one, nor are you anywhere NEAR
square one. I'd further suggest that you will never again be able to go
return to square one since you now have the experience of how easy it is to
remove and install these little beasties.
Now, will putting in the matched set of 256MB sticks work? Well, I have no
idea if or how well it would work. It depends on how well they're matched
with the brand new sticks you installed. If they are designed for a slower
speed, they will slow the entire system down to their speed, regardless of
how fast the new sticks as desined to run. If they are designed for
different timings, they mainboard may disable dual-channel support
altogether. the only way to know is to put them in and see what kind of
readings you get from CPU-Z.
As for your old system, what you described sounds like either a bad hard
drive of perhaps a bad power supply. Where is that system's hard drive now?
If it's currently in use, then the old PS probably bit the dust. While I
would not suggest this for someone's main system, an inexpensive replacement
might bring it right back to a usable life (although you'd still need a hard
drive, too).
Peace,
Gman
"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"
----- Original Message -----
From: "cristy" <poppy0206@xxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 9:50 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: memory question
> "Sigh",,,,;0 oh no...I d/l the program below and ran it, I clicked on the
> memory tab at the top and to the right it said "single"...grrr...then went
> to the tab "spd" I guess for speed?? I saw it was on slot 1, so I checked
> each slot individually and found the to my surprize...eek the 1 gig new
> memory in slots 1 and 2 (I thought I put it in 1 and 3), and the two 512
> mg
> memory sticks in slots 3 and 4 and the one in slot 4 (must have been the
> old
> stick from other computer) was at 166 mghz (megahertz?) is that the speed
> and the other in slot 3 was 200 mghz..."SIGH". And the old stick had a
> diff
> brand name on it too than the other three sticks which were all same
> (Kingston).
>
> Back to square 1 on the above I guess, now as a side note I do have the
> two
> PERFECTLY MATCHED pair of 256 mg memory sticks that we took out of the
> system plus one other stick that I cannot read what it is, I am guessing
> 512
> mg that came with the older computer originally but am unsure. It says
> Korea
> at the top and 0225 and at the bottom I need to go find glasses for that
> lol..
>
> The system in the pics is minus the memory now as we took that out to see
> if
> the 512 from it could match the 512 in the other system, is weird because
> I
> thought for sure they were bought at the same time and would be the same
> thing but maybe I need newwwwww memory in me LOL...The old system had a
> major problem, never knew what it was but would not crank up, just made a
> noise, nothing would come up not even windows screen.
>
> Christine
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