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Dell E520 BIOS problem with memory upgrade

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Anonymous   09-22-2009 at 07:30:52 PM

My Dell owners manual says it is upgradeable to 4 GB. I tried to upgrade. It has 4 slots and 2 are filled with 512 MB chips. I have 2 identical chips but the BIOS does not recognize them, and says that memory (and CPU) are "unchangeable". Is there a way to correct this. I have flashed the BIOS and reset the CMOS but it does not recognize the 2 new chips, and still says "unchangeable".

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r_manic   09-28-2009 at 11:44:48 AM
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Stupid question: you sure the RAM you got is fully compatible with the motherboard, frequency and timings wise?

------------------------------ Desktop | E7300 | P5KPL-AM | 2GB DDR2 667MHz | NVIDIA 9500 GT | ST3320613AS | w2228h
XPS M1330 | T8300 | Dell 0U8042 | 2GB DDR2 800MHz | NVIDIA 8400M GS | WD2500BEVS-75US | 1280 x 800
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