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I have a Gateway 710x which I just upgraded by adding 2-512mb DIMMs.
Unfortunately, I didn't get one of the DIMMs properly seated and got some
very unexpected results since the system specified that they be installed in
pairs. When I powered it up only one of the DIMMs was recognized by the
BIOS; Memtest 86 also told me I only had one memory chip and then went ahead
and checked it with all tests passed.
Can someone, with more background than I, tell me why it worked with the
unbalanced chip install (3 working & one missing)? I would have expected a
failure at the very least since I understood that the bus would assign one
memory location on one chip and the next on the other which in this case was
absent.
Thanks for any info you may have,
Tom
I have a Gateway 710x which I just upgraded by adding 2-512mb DIMMs.
Unfortunately, I didn't get one of the DIMMs properly seated and got some
very unexpected results since the system specified that they be installed in
pairs. When I powered it up only one of the DIMMs was recognized by the
BIOS; Memtest 86 also told me I only had one memory chip and then went ahead
and checked it with all tests passed.
Can someone, with more background than I, tell me why it worked with the
unbalanced chip install (3 working & one missing)? I would have expected a
failure at the very least since I understood that the bus would assign one
memory location on one chip and the next on the other which in this case was
absent.
Thanks for any info you may have,
Tom