please help pc wont load up

crystal9

so i think i got this right i can have upto 2 gb fitted but would be best to just get another 512mb (to make 1gb) as it would be to expensive the other way?

aliEnRIK

Id buy a single 1 gig chip of PC3200 personally

crystal9

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Id buy a single 1 gig chip of PC3200 personally

really? why only 1gb rik sorry but as i dont know much about this was wondering why not 2gb make it faster still?

so would i have to take the 512mb i got in out and just replace with the 1gb?

which site would you use rik?

aliEnRIK

If you have 2 slots, then you can have 1.25 gig
If 4 then you can have 1.5 gig

But youll barely notice any difference between them unless you start using memory intensive programs (Clearly you dont now else your computer would be slower than a snail)

As for the memory sticks ~ id advise starting a new thread specifically finding the best place to get them from as people seem to find them from all sorts of places these days and as theyre quite old could save a bit of case doing it that way

I notice you went to the AMERICAN version of crucial

Go back to CRUCIAL.COM and make sure your in the ENGLISH version and scan again to find out how much they are from there so you can compare

crystal9

aliEnRIK wrote: »

If you have 2 slots, then you can have 1.25 gig
If 4 then you can have 1.5 gig

But youll barely notice any difference between them unless you start using memory intensive programs (Clearly you dont now else your computer would be slower than a snail)

As for the memory sticks ~ id advise starting a new thread specifically finding the best place to get them from as people seem to find them from all sorts of places these days and as theyre quite old could save a bit of case doing it that way

I notice you went to the AMERICAN version of crucial

Go back to CRUCIAL.COM and make sure your in the ENGLISH version and scan again to find out how much they are from there so you can compare

ok thanks for making that a lot more clearer rik i will go to the uk site and scan again

ddoris

Well - I think if you have the 4 slot m/board you can have upto 4 gig ,1gig per slot.
http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/default.php?cat=11&type=11020&man=0&filterwords=&go=SEARCH&comp=
See here for prices. Thing is you will notice hardly any difference if you put more mem in , once you have 1gig memory. I only run 2 gig memory even tho' I've got loads laying about

crystal9

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Richie-from-the-Boro

The MOBO takes up to 4 GB of 184-pin 2.5 V DIMM, has 4 memory slots, and is currently populated with 2 x 256 bars of PC3200.

I'm not convinced that buying brand new memory for an old [ish] machine makes sense, 4 x 512's or 2 x 1GiG's on ebay will cost about £30 to 40 [ish] and will give a good return for the money.

Either way any benefit to be had will - with one exception will mean discarding the current 2 x 256 bars ! That exception would be to get an additional 2 x 256 bars.

NOTE the displayed memory site says "" Our suggested upgrades 1.5GB Total "" I advise agaist this, it's always a fraught area when you mix chip sizes, and anyway memory should always be installed in identical pairs NOTE

You should not mix module size ! so the options are :

- throw away the current 256's and put in 4 x 512 bars DDR400
- throw away the current 256's and put in 2 or 4 x 1GiG bars of DDR400
- keep the current 256's and put in 2 more 256 bars of DDR400