[aclug-L] Re: Ram how to tell if bad or..

[Thomas Wallis <wallis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, David Carmichael wrote:

>
> Speaking of Hardware Engineers;
>
> Yesterday I tied to help a friend out by upgrading his memory on a little
> 'HP Pavilion XE783' Wal-Mart Special.

        Hello, David!

        I have found out that the propriatary machines like HPs often take
special memory.  The timings on their memory are slightly different than
generic memory, enough to make trouble.  I have put generic PC100 into our
Compaqs and they boot but don't stay running  (under LINUX).  I had to go
to custom memory.  I have had good luck with www.1stchoicememory.com.
You can call them up and tell them your machine model and they'll look it
up in a book and figure out what it needs.

                        Hope this helps,

                        T W
>
> The DIMM that I had was a 64meg PC-133.
>
> Other than the fact that you had to have the hands of a two year old and
> bend like 'Gumby' to get the ran in the slot...
>
> Once it was in, we rebooted the system and the video display was all
> scrambled.
>
> Removed the DIMM and rebooted and the video was correct.
>
> The 'HP' web site calls out for PC-100.
>
> I thought that the DIMM had gone bad so place it into another system to
> check and the second system booted up just fine.
>
> The Crucial lists PC-133 as a replacement / add-on DIMM.
>
> Got any suggestions?
>
> --David
>
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