Troubleshooting help please - Problem with adding memory

[Guest]

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Hi -

I hope I can ask a question here on a non homebuilt system....

I have an older system:

SE440BX-2 Mother board
Dell Dimension XPS T450
Intel PIII 450 MHZ
Windows XP

It had the following SDRAM memory config:

Slot0 - Empty
Slot1 - 128 MB
Slot2 - 64 MB

I went to upgrade using 2 PC100 128 MB DIMMS from another system that
was coming down. The two DIMMS

The new config was:

Slot0 - 128 MB
Slot1 - 128 MB
Slot2 - 128 MB

But the system would freeze shortly after boot.

I removed the 128 from Slot0 and it worked fine.

I added the known good 64 MB DIMM to slot 0 and again problems, this
time with a PC Serial Presence Detect error message during POST. I
didn't even bother to let it finish boot.

I removed the 64MB and it worked fine again. The upshot is it
seems anything I put in Slot0 does not work and screws up the system.

Any ideas? Do I have to set a jumper, switch or some BIOS setting?
Maybe slot0 is just bad?

Thanks in Advance-

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt (More info?)

I don't know your board but I have an Asus board with three slots and you
can put SIMMs in all three or dimms in only two. The second slot shares a
single side with the first, so essentially the board has only two dimms
<groundsel@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:1119769768.352102.79370@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi -
>
> I hope I can ask a question here on a non homebuilt system....
>
> I have an older system:
>
> SE440BX-2 Mother board
> Dell Dimension XPS T450
> Intel PIII 450 MHZ
> Windows XP
>
> It had the following SDRAM memory config:
>
> Slot0 - Empty
> Slot1 - 128 MB
> Slot2 - 64 MB
>
> I went to upgrade using 2 PC100 128 MB DIMMS from another system that
> was coming down. The two DIMMS
>
> The new config was:
>
> Slot0 - 128 MB
> Slot1 - 128 MB
> Slot2 - 128 MB
>
> But the system would freeze shortly after boot.
>
> I removed the 128 from Slot0 and it worked fine.
>
> I added the known good 64 MB DIMM to slot 0 and again problems, this
> time with a PC Serial Presence Detect error message during POST. I
> didn't even bother to let it finish boot.
>
> I removed the 64MB and it worked fine again. The upshot is it
> seems anything I put in Slot0 does not work and screws up the system.
>
> Any ideas? Do I have to set a jumper, switch or some BIOS setting?
> Maybe slot0 is just bad?
>
> Thanks in Advance-
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt (More info?)

Sounds like you've proven that Slot 0 is bad. It's happened to me before.

--
DaveW



<groundsel@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:1119769768.352102.79370@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi -
>
> I hope I can ask a question here on a non homebuilt system....
>
> I have an older system:
>
> SE440BX-2 Mother board
> Dell Dimension XPS T450
> Intel PIII 450 MHZ
> Windows XP
>
> It had the following SDRAM memory config:
>
> Slot0 - Empty
> Slot1 - 128 MB
> Slot2 - 64 MB
>
> I went to upgrade using 2 PC100 128 MB DIMMS from another system that
> was coming down. The two DIMMS
>
> The new config was:
>
> Slot0 - 128 MB
> Slot1 - 128 MB
> Slot2 - 128 MB
>
> But the system would freeze shortly after boot.
>
> I removed the 128 from Slot0 and it worked fine.
>
> I added the known good 64 MB DIMM to slot 0 and again problems, this
> time with a PC Serial Presence Detect error message during POST. I
> didn't even bother to let it finish boot.
>
> I removed the 64MB and it worked fine again. The upshot is it
> seems anything I put in Slot0 does not work and screws up the system.
>
> Any ideas? Do I have to set a jumper, switch or some BIOS setting?
> Maybe slot0 is just bad?
>
> Thanks in Advance-
>