I bought some ram to give my aging HP xw4300 tower a kick in the pants so it can better run Windows 7 for some basic computing work. The chips I bought are: 2x 2GB DDR2 533MHz PC2-4200. I installed them in banks 2 & 4, alongside the existing 2x 1GB DDR2, installed in banks 1 & 3. Upon startup, I got 5 beeps/red LED flash, indicating a memory error. I checked the new chips in banks 1 & 3 without old chips and startup proceeded without issue - BIOS automatically detected change in RAM and asked me to confirm. Tried again to install existing chips, now in 2 & 4 and got the same beep/flash.
I don't know much about troubleshooting - is there anything I can do, or should I just be happy that I went from 2 to 4GB and let go of my hope for 6GB? Can my system (32bit) even handle that much RAM? Thanks in advance for any help!
I don't know much about troubleshooting - is there anything I can do, or should I just be happy that I went from 2 to 4GB and let go of my hope for 6GB? Can my system (32bit) even handle that much RAM? Thanks in advance for any help!
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