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Virgin-Rez · 22-10-2009, 21:22

Folks,

A mate has brought his Compaq mini tower to me for a look over as he's complaining that its running slow.

Over the phone he tells me it has 512Mb of RAM and so I suggest an increase to 2Gb ought to do him right for now till he's got the funds to replace the system.

The system is brought over and to my surprise I open the box to find it's fitted with a 1Gb PC3200 CL3 128mx64 DDR module.

Checking the motherboard manual I see it says to fit up to 2Gb of PC2100(DDR266).

My question then... is this apparent mismatch the reason for him seeing only 512Mb or could it be something else?

As PC2100 seems to be pretty scarce new these days will PC2700 (DDR333) be OK... I thought the memory just worked at the slower speed!?!

Cheers!

Rez

22-10-2009, 21:22	#1
Virgin-Rez Inactive Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Derby Services: Ex NTL, Sky and Virgin Media, Now with BSNL in Bangalore Posts: 77	1Gb Memory showing up as 512Mb in BIOS? Folks, A mate has brought his Compaq mini tower to me for a look over as he's complaining that its running slow. Over the phone he tells me it has 512Mb of RAM and so I suggest an increase to 2Gb ought to do him right for now till he's got the funds to replace the system. The system is brought over and to my surprise I open the box to find it's fitted with a 1Gb PC3200 CL3 128mx64 DDR module. Checking the motherboard manual I see it says to fit up to 2Gb of PC2100(DDR266). My question then... is this apparent mismatch the reason for him seeing only 512Mb or could it be something else? As PC2100 seems to be pretty scarce new these days will PC2700 (DDR333) be OK... I thought the memory just worked at the slower speed!?! Cheers! Rez