ram doesnt fit?

[newbiex]

today i bought 256sdram pc 133 and i tried putting it into my comp but it doesnt fit. My old ram slots were built to fit ram with two little holes on the bottom but i just realized my new ram only has one. So i can't put it in, can some1 help me im quite new and confused

 

[newbiex]

just to make it ezier my old one looked like this
_______________
|.........._....._.........|
|_____| |_| |_____|
and my new one is like this
_________________
|................_...............|
|________| |_______|
so it doesnt fit into the slot cuz it was made to hold the first one

 

[Titanion]

Keep the ram and buy a new motherboard...

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OK, you need pc133 or pc100 ram, which has 168 pins and 2 notches...

You bought some ddr ram (likely pc2100, which is 133x2)that has 184 pins and 1 notch...

PC133 ram is getting to be expensive... so, really, keep the ram and get a cheap $50 board or something... that may not be the best advice, but not knowing anything about your computer, it is hard to advise anyone to spend money on pc133 ram...

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Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n.</b></font color=red>
John Milton, <i>Paradise Lost</i>, II 262-263

 

[Crashman]

PC66, PC100, and PC133 have 2 slots, you didn't buy PC133.

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[newbiex]

i checked in the store and it says my ram is rdram and i will need 2 pieces at 49dollars each, is tat price right???????

 

[Titanion]

You are at the stage where you ought to consider upgrading your motherboard before spend $100 on pc133 ram... what are your computer's specs?

You might want to stay happy with 256MB of ram or whatever you have and start saving up for a new system... but let us know what you have, including case and psu, and $100 might go a long way for you...

<font color=red><b>To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n.</b></font color=red>
John Milton, <i>Paradise Lost</i>, II 262-263

 

[newbiex]

my comp is crap... lol

Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 1287MHz
128ram
Windows XP Professional
with 18gigs of space

 

[Titanion]

You might get more out of your system by going back to 98SE than keeping XP Pro and adding another 256MB of ram...

<font color=red><b>To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n.</b></font color=red>
John Milton, <i>Paradise Lost</i>, II 262-263