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no right now i've installed:
Samsung 512Mb 2Rx16 PC2-4200s-444-12-A3
and
Kingmax DDR2-667 2Gb
and works with no problem
Lemur
The Kingmax web site lists them as singles not a matched set.
I don't know if that would present a problem or not.
According to the spec sheet it should work with the 2x2GB sticks.
Last edited by Hopalong X; 26 Jan 2011 at 10:33.
I think the reason it's working with the 512 stick, it's running at the slower speed or the original ram, ram is real finicky when using different speed ram than it calls for
Ram sticks should not be mixed. All ram should be the same manufacturer, same voltage and same timings.
And of course ram should be meant for your mobo. I burned up a mobo's ram slots using two manufacturers.!
When changing ram, you should put in only one stick and enter bios to configure mobo to your ram. Once mobo bios is set you can add the other sticks. Before changing any ram, you should enter bios and put ram bios in default, this will help with POST of the new ram stick.
Flashing the bios to a newer version would automatically reset the bios to defaults.
A rule of thumb for upgrading or changing memory in any system is not only making sure you have the right RAM for the motherboard you are using, but using the same manufacture, speed and size of RAM. Mixing different manufacturers of RAM or timing or both will introduce too many problems later, ranger from weird system problems, mostly related to memory, to just simply memory not working or showing up properly in the system.