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wEaViL - Mon Jun 13, 2005 9:40 pm
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Ok I bought a 1 gig chip of what was supposed to be pc 2100.. but it wouldn't come up in the system as 1024 megs just 512 megs. I peeled a sticker off it and it says under it that it is a pc 2700 1 gig chip. Now I dont know everything about computer but even if it is supposed to run at 333mhz instead of 266mhz would it still show up as 1 gig but run at the 266mhz speed? The chip was in a 333mhz system and it would run at 1 gig but only ran at 266mhz instead of the 333 mhz... It just took the cpu from a athlon 2500 down to a athlon 1900.

Contempt+ - Mon Jun 13, 2005 11:09 pm
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Could be a couple of reasons.

Read your motherboard manual and see what kind of RAM it can handle.

wEaViL - Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:12 am
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it can handle pc 1600, 2100, 2700, and whatever the ddr400 is

Contempt+ - Wed Jun 15, 2005 12:14 am
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Hmm.. Sounds like it should work.

What's the max RAM your motherboard can handle?

wEaViL - Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:44 am
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http://www.albatron.com.tw/english/it/mb/specification.asp?pro_id=33

Theres all of the spec's for my mainboard. And if I haven't already said im running a AMD Athlon 1700+ xp

Contempt+ - Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:40 pm
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DDR333/266/DDR200 unbuffered ECC/none-ECC DDR SDRAM up to 3GB

Seems like you've got the wrong type of RAM in your computer. What did you have in there before?

wEaViL - Thu Jun 16, 2005 3:44 pm
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I did have pc2100 256 meg ddr. The chip I just bought was supposed to be a 1 gig pc 2100 ddr chip. But under the pc 2100 sticker it says its a pc 2700 chip. I can run the 256 chip and 1 gig chip together but it shows up as 768 megs. The 1 gig chip alone shows up as 512 megs. The ram is compatible with my computer... I tried it in a computer with a athlon 2500 cpu that runs at 333 mhz fsb but that computer would only run at the speed of a 1900 xp instead of the 2500 xp.

Edit: Could this be a reverse roll taking affect? Instead of changeing my cpu speed to be higher its just changeing the ram to be lower...?

Contempt+ - Sun Jun 19, 2005 4:03 pm
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There's a couple of reasons. Your motherboard says it should be unbuffereed, and you might have a bufferend stick. If it's used, it might be 512, even though you got it and thought it was 1 gig. Also, it could have a damaged memory bank, so it's not getting the total memory.

wEaViL - Mon Jun 20, 2005 2:50 am
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I know its a 1 gig chip becuase it registered fine in a customers computer with a slightly upgraded motherboard.. only difference between mine and his is that his has 8x agp and mines only 4x. There's a slight chance that the chip could of became damaged in the 4 hours it sat in the car... but it was as night so it was not too hot nor cold and it was in the anti static bag which was in a bubble wrapped mailing envelope. There was no static disscharge when I removed it from the other computer or anything like that either. I dont think its buffered...

Contempt+ - Mon Jun 20, 2005 9:47 pm
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Hmm.. Then I don't know what to tell you. Like I said, it might be buffered, and it might have a bad memory bank

wEaViL - Tue Jun 21, 2005 7:46 am
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im not too worried about it now... im looking into upgradeing the mainboard, cpu, and ram to a AMD 64 bit system to help with my gaming needs...

Contempt+ - Wed Jun 22, 2005 12:11 am
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Yeah, that might work. Let me know if it works, when you get it all upgraded.