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smiffy525   09-28-2009 at 04:59:26 PM

hi i have a rc415 st mother board and want to go to 2 gb... i have a 1gb in at mo and a 512mb.. the problem is the 1 gb is a 16 chip.. do i need another 16 chip mem to work

thanks wayne

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Silver Motherboards badge mongox   09-28-2009 at 07:29:34 PM

Wayne,
We'd need more info to give an opinion. The motherboard brand and its website for that model. The maker and type of the RAM modules you have now would be useful.

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smiffy525   09-29-2009 at 08:28:10 AM

packard bell 1379 i-start, motherboard is a rc415st. the memory i have at the moment is pq1 ddr2-5300 1gb.(16 chips) and a pq1 512 ddr2(8 chips) these work fine together and give a total of 1289 mb. but the problem is,that i tryed a 1gb memory same speed etc,but it only had the 8 chips on it and it did not read that card at all.just the original 1gb i already had in...

hope this helps


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rand_79   09-29-2009 at 08:31:03 AM

mixing memory is baddd.. stuff like that happens.

did you try Just the 8chip 1gb chip?

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Silver Motherboards badge mongox   09-29-2009 at 11:32:53 AM

smiffy, have you tried PB support?

 

They don't seem to have US support or website anymore, but I chose the UK and found this page:
http://support.packardbell.com/uk/ [...] ire=access

 

Even though it says Battery on that page, it seems to be for Memory. It wants a serial number which I don't have. The info you get from there may be useful in figuring out what RAM will work in the system.

 

If UK isn't useful, you can start at www.packardbell.com and choose a country.

 

Here's the main page for your computer, not much info there and the articles seem generic, but ...
http://support.packardbell.com/uk/ [...] 501&g=1400


Message edited by mongox on 09-29-2009 at 11:33:57 AM
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smiffy525   09-29-2009 at 01:36:27 PM

thanks tryed that and it says that there is a 2 gb memory 5300 ddr2-667 which should be fine for my machine

thanks

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