Upgrading Memory Issues.

[Guest]

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I'm having a terrible time trying to upgrade the memory in my PC.

I have a factory HP pavilion 7917. I purchased a 128mb stick of ram a
while back and installed it fine. I recently purchsed a 256mb stick
(of the same brand) and for some reason when I reboot the PC it does
not even regcognize that the new RAM is there. I have already
verified that each slot in this model can handle a 256, I returned
the 256 once and tried a brand new one. I have switched which slot
each stick is in. I really can't think of anything else that I can do
to resolve this. I'm at hte end of my rope.

Any ideas?

 

[Guest]

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I'm not sure about systems like your 7917 that use the Intel 810 chipset,
but you may need low-density SDRAM memory. (I don't know if it follows, but
the 256 MB low-density memory I've used had 16 chips on the DIMM.)

You may have a hard time getting low-density memory from a generic vendor.
I've gotten some from www.crucial.com. (I'm in the US. I believe they also
have a UK operation, but I don't know whether they do business in other
countries.) Their prices aren't the absolute lowest, but they guarantee
compatibility.

Good luck.

Bob Knowlden

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"KitteKat" <kittekatz@hotmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
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> I'm having a terrible time trying to upgrade the memory in my PC.
>
> I have a factory HP pavilion 7917. I purchased a 128mb stick of ram a
> while back and installed it fine. I recently purchsed a 256mb stick
> (of the same brand) and for some reason when I reboot the PC it does
> not even regcognize that the new RAM is there. I have already
> verified that each slot in this model can handle a 256, I returned
> the 256 once and tried a brand new one. I have switched which slot
> each stick is in. I really can't think of anything else that I can do
> to resolve this. I'm at hte end of my rope.
>
> Any ideas?
>

 

[jaster]

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On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:04:18 -0400, KitteKat while doing time wrote:

> I'm having a terrible time trying to upgrade the memory in my PC.
>
> I have a factory HP pavilion 7917. I purchased a 128mb stick of ram a
> while back and installed it fine. I recently purchsed a 256mb stick
> (of the same brand) and for some reason when I reboot the PC it does
> not even regcognize that the new RAM is there. I have already
> verified that each slot in this model can handle a 256, I returned
> the 256 once and tried a brand new one. I have switched which slot
> each stick is in. I really can't think of anything else that I can do
> to resolve this. I'm at hte end of my rope.
>
> Any ideas?


I agree with the other poster. The memory is high density and not
compatible with 810 systems. You need 16x8 or 128Mbit chips. It needs to
be specifically low density.