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re: Extended RAM failed at offset 1A
Sunday, September 11, 2005 at 2:03 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(5923 messages posted)
Hey no prob on the rant! LOL You sure hear all kinds of stories. What they sold
you was HD (4 chip double sided) and what they gave you now is LD so it will fall
back to PC 100 when you add it in with a PC 100 module or if the FSB is set to 100.
If you can set the FSB to 133 (by MB jumper or in the BIOS) and run only that module,
you would get a slight increase in speed during some operations, such as mem intensive
ones. The HD won't fall back or clock down to PC 100, in fact the good manufacturers
usually put warnings on them for not being backward compatible. Most of the gerenics/OEM
won't have a warning at all! :-( So all in all, it should work fine now. Good
Luck!!
On Friday, September 9, 2005 at 10:06 pm, Loc Long wrote:
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>Hey C.K
>
>You're absolutely correct !. I got a new 16-chip stick , PC133 and it works just
>fine now (all total 320M of SDRAM...the wife loves the surfing now !).
>
>I didn't have to upgrade or change anything in BIOS or move the sticks around in
>different banks. The returned RAM didn't have any problems either as it was tested
>in the store PC and it came up fine (4 chip, double side).
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>I took your advice and got new stick even though the sale guys who sold me the stuff
>didn't know whether it would work...He suggested to bring the PC in for them to
check
>(charge ~ $45)....I said no-thank and took a chance with the new stick.
>
>Also did chat with the HP support tech last night before posted the question on
this
>forum and the person was clueless. First of all the person told me the PC doesn't
>support PC133 , then retracted and apologized after I sent the PC specs. Then the
>person told me it's a bad mem and the solution is get a new one and make sure I
don't
>run the two memory sticks together...I'm in tech support also and completely PC
illiterate
>but the support was bad !. Sorry about the rant
>
>Again thank you for taking time to answer my questions.
>
>Cheers
>Loc
>
>
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