mem upgrade help

Hi,
I bought some memory for a friend who has a Gigabyte GA6wmm7 motherboard.
She only has 64mb of ram . I bought Viking 256MB PC100 168pin 8 chip SDRAM
Memory Module .
In her pc it wont even boot, the pc tries and beeps but the monitor wont
switch on (stays in stand by mode yellow light)
If i put it in my old pc it boots up but claims that there is only 128mb.
I tried running super pi in my pc and it said " Not convergent in sqro5"
Does anyone know what that means?
Do i need to change a setting in the bios to make it see the whole of the
ram? normally when i have upgraded on ram it sees it itself.
Using her 64mb ram stick her pc boots up fine. the only difference that i
can see on the memory is hers says 8* 64 and the Viking ram says 32* 64.
would this matter.
Any help would be great.
Thanks

Originally Posted by Phill

Hi,
I bought some memory for a friend who has a Gigabyte GA6wmm7 motherboard.
She only has 64mb of ram . I bought Viking 256MB PC100 168pin 8 chip SDRAM
Memory Module .
In her pc it wont even boot, the pc tries and beeps but the monitor wont
switch on (stays in stand by mode yellow light)
If i put it in my old pc it boots up but claims that there is only 128mb.
I tried running super pi in my pc and it said " Not convergent in sqro5"
Does anyone know what that means?
Do i need to change a setting in the bios to make it see the whole of the
ram? normally when i have upgraded on ram it sees it itself.
Using her 64mb ram stick her pc boots up fine. the only difference that i
can see on the memory is hers says 8* 64 and the Viking ram says 32* 64.
would this matter.
Any help would be great.
Thanks

Upgrading RAM without knowing what type/size is compatible can be a tricky business, especially if adding new to existing. The reason that stick of 256MB only registered as 128 in your old PC is most likely a limitation of the RAM slots - they can only address up to 128MB each - anything above that in each slot is ignored. As for the problem in question, the safest way is to use a website like www.crucial.com which can interrogate the system online, identify the RAM that's compatible with it, then offer you a compatible module. They guarantee a full refund if it doesn't work when you get it.

Thanks for that very helpful. I will try it and see how I get on.
Cheers

"pip22" wrote:


Phill Wrote:
Hi,
I bought some memory for a friend who has a Gigabyte GA6wmm7
motherboard.
She only has 64mb of ram . I bought Viking 256MB PC100 168pin 8 chip
SDRAM
Memory Module .
In her pc it wont even boot, the pc tries and beeps but the monitor
wont
switch on (stays in stand by mode yellow light)
If i put it in my old pc it boots up but claims that there is only
128mb.
I tried running super pi in my pc and it said " Not convergent in
sqro5"
Does anyone know what that means?
Do i need to change a setting in the bios to make it see the whole of
the
ram? normally when i have upgraded on ram it sees it itself.
Using her 64mb ram stick her pc boots up fine. the only difference that
i
can see on the memory is hers says 8* 64 and the Viking ram says 32*
64.
would this matter.
Any help would be great.
Thanks

Upgrading RAM without knowing what type/size is compatible can be a
tricky business, especially if adding new to existing. The reason that
stick of 256MB only registered as 128 in your old PC is most likely a
limitation of the RAM slots - they can only address up to 128MB each -
anything above that in each slot is ignored. As for the problem in
question, the safest way is to use a website like www.crucial.com which
can interrogate the system online, identify the RAM that's compatible
with it, then offer you a compatible module. They guarantee a full
refund if it doesn't work when you get it.


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pip22