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I have just purchased a 512mb PC 3200 400mhz DDram module as an upgrade to
my existing 512mb PC 266. I have been told by Crucial and PC World techs
that this should be fine as the memory will operate at the lowest setting IE
the 266mhz module. They advised this in case I decide to upgrade further in
the future.
The problem I have is that the 512mb 266mhz module works fine in both 184
pin connectors on my AS Rock K7VM2 Mobo
which can take a maximum 2gb RAM and so does the PC 3200 400mhz, but they
dont run together. The Bios shows that I have 1GB memory but when the system
boots into windows xp I get a referenced memory error and the screen turns
blue with a page fault error saying that I should re boot and try again,
there is also a notice at the bottom of the blue screen saying that it is
dumping the physical memory to disk and there is a total in % running as I
watch, what the hell does all this mean? I don't think that the new memory
is at fault because it works in both connectors on its own but when I try to
pair them I get the problem. I hope this is easily remedied or I have just
wasted £79
I have just purchased a 512mb PC 3200 400mhz DDram module as an upgrade to
my existing 512mb PC 266. I have been told by Crucial and PC World techs
that this should be fine as the memory will operate at the lowest setting IE
the 266mhz module. They advised this in case I decide to upgrade further in
the future.
The problem I have is that the 512mb 266mhz module works fine in both 184
pin connectors on my AS Rock K7VM2 Mobo
which can take a maximum 2gb RAM and so does the PC 3200 400mhz, but they
dont run together. The Bios shows that I have 1GB memory but when the system
boots into windows xp I get a referenced memory error and the screen turns
blue with a page fault error saying that I should re boot and try again,
there is also a notice at the bottom of the blue screen saying that it is
dumping the physical memory to disk and there is a total in % running as I
watch, what the hell does all this mean? I don't think that the new memory
is at fault because it works in both connectors on its own but when I try to
pair them I get the problem. I hope this is easily remedied or I have just
wasted £79