Re: OT : RAM, please help.
When I was adding RAM to my mothers gateway, I ran into problems because I didn't
have double clock ram. The ram I added just simply wasn't being counted before I got
the right kind.
-Aaron Solochek
leko@cmu.edu
"J.W. Jones" wrote:
> I worked for a long time as a computer repair tech, and Gateways are a pain
> in the neck. What has probably happened is that the Gateway Tech you talked
> with wasn't paying attention looking at the specs for your system. I
> personally have had about 50% success with runnning PC100 RAM in a 66mhz
> system. Some will take it, others just float off into la la land when they
> are counting RAM. It is usually because the motherboard has a problem with
> the clock chip on the RAM(very tiny black chip, normally off to right or
> left side). IMHO, your best bet would be to return the RAM you have and get
> some slower, and less expensive non PC100 RAM, or pitch the Gateway and get
> a brand new computer.
>
> J.W. Jones
> ---------------
> goofball@goofball.org
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Carline <jtc@stic.net>
> To: Andrei Ivanov <c680789@showme.missouri.edu>
> Cc: Debian user list <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 1999 6:07 AM
> Subject: Re: OT : RAM, please help.
>
> > Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry for OT question, but I'm completely stumped here.
> > > My stepfather has a custom Gateway machine, and he wanted to get some
> > > memory upgrades on it. The docs say that motherboard supports up to 32M
> > > 4x64 modulo SDRAM chip in each DIMM (it has 2).
> > > I told him to order the SDRAM, and now that memory arrives, each chip is
> > > recognised as 8M (instead of 32M).
> > > I talked to the company, they are willing to exchange....just I don't
> know
> > > for what.
> > > Gateway people don't know much, and tell me to use their store instead
> > > (that charges 2x).
> > >
> > > I have several suspicions:
> > > 1. Memory that we ordered was PC100, but board runs at 66 max. Gateway
> > > techsupport told me it would work.
> >
> > >
> > > 2. When my stepfather first called them, he ordered 4x16 modulo, but I
> > > told him to call back and change the order to 4x64
> >
> > I'm not much help, but since I didn't see any answers to your post I
> thought I'd stir
> > up some of the experts.
> >
> > My first impression is that you probably received the 4x64 that you
> ordered since the
> > smallest DIMM I've seen is a 2x64 (16mb) and the 168pin DIMMS are all
> either x64 or
> > x72 - at least I think they are. (someone out there correct me if I'm
> wrong.) You
> > could confirm that by asking the vendor how to identify the size of the
> DIMMs that
> > were sent.
> >
> > Next possibility is that the PC100 type doesn't play on that computer?
> However, I've
> > seen 100 MHz DIMMs running at 66 MHz without a problem and gateway
> techsupport says
> > that it will. So while it still could be the problem, I'd begin to suspect
> something
> > in the setup of the board.
> >
> > I know that you probably already checked all this. But just in case you
> didn't ...
> > Did gateway techsupport or the motherboard manual mention any setting that
> needed to
> > be made for the clock speed of the chips? All the DIMMs I've seen were
> recognized
> > automatically, but I'm unfamiliar with gateway so it's possible that some
> setting
> > need to be changed.
> >
> > Any Gateway Experts out there?
> >
> > Good Luck
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> > > Could they have sent
> > > us the wrong ram still, and that caused the 1/4 of memory recognized?
> > >
> > > Please help, I have no idea what to do now.
> > > TIA,
> > > Andrew
> > >
> >
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