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Virgin-Rez · 22-10-2009, 21:29

Thanks for the responses guys!

Sadly the tower is no longer with me as his wife wasn't keen to be without the PC for too long... the deal was to bring it over for me to check it out, get memory type and motherboard make and model logged, order some new RAM for him and when the sticks had arrived call him to bring the PC back for me to fit... thus minimising the wifes PC downtime!

So, I can't say for sure which model of Compaq it was. The Motherboard is an FIC AM37. I've downloaded the manual and it's next to useless saying only:-
Advanced High Performance Memory Controller - Through two DDR SDRAM sockets accepts up to 2 GB totally with support DDR266/200 SDRAM.

THe safest bet for me is to track down some DDR266 1Gb sticks... the next question is do these come in different flavours that I need to worry about!?!

Rez

22-10-2009, 21:29	#4
Virgin-Rez Inactive Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Derby Services: Ex NTL, Sky and Virgin Media, Now with BSNL in Bangalore Posts: 77	Re: 1Gb Memory showing up as 512Mb in BIOS? Thanks for the responses guys! Sadly the tower is no longer with me as his wife wasn't keen to be without the PC for too long... the deal was to bring it over for me to check it out, get memory type and motherboard make and model logged, order some new RAM for him and when the sticks had arrived call him to bring the PC back for me to fit... thus minimising the wifes PC downtime! So, I can't say for sure which model of Compaq it was. The Motherboard is an FIC AM37. I've downloaded the manual and it's next to useless saying only:- Advanced High Performance Memory Controller - Through two DDR SDRAM sockets accepts up to 2 GB totally with support DDR266/200 SDRAM. THe safest bet for me is to track down some DDR266 1Gb sticks... the next question is do these come in different flavours that I need to worry about!?! Rez