RAM

I have a HP Pavilion 6511 Desktop with the following:

1. Motherboard - P5S-VM, Supplier -ASUS
2. Base Processor and Speed - 500 MHz AMD K6-2 with 3D Now! technology
3. Chipset - SiS 530
4. Memory - 64 MB SDRAM standard, Speed 100 MHz synchronous.

As it has Three 168-pin DIMM sockets and can take upto 3X128 MB, I had added
two more viz., a 64 and a 128 MB RAM's into the two vacant sockets. The unit
was working well until recently when it had memory problems which I had
ascertained using "Windows Memory Diagnostics". I wanted to verify my
diagnosis and so I gave it to a service centre. They now advise me that the
sockets are damaged and replacing with newer SDRAM also will NOT work and
that I have live with the original 64 MB!

Is there anyway to repair the DIMM sockets without having to replace the
motherboard? In any case it will not be possible to obtain an outdated
motherboard!

Thanking you
Capt K Ripendran

HP Pavilion PCs - Motherboard Specifications, P5S-VM (Osprey) -
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...ectID=bph04949

Exactly how did the service technician determine that the RAM sockets are damaged?

When you installed the two additional DIMM sticks in the sockets, the system worked
alright, with the additional RAM being recognised properly, for a period of
time....correct?

I am having a hard time accepting that the sockets are bad, unless they were
physically damaged by inserting RAM backwards, with the notch not lined up with the
key.

EVEN if I accept their diagnosis without proof, you could still remove your original
64-MB stick, and insert a compatible 128-MB stick into that supposedly "good"
socket, to give you 128MB RAM installed. So, their assertion that you are stuck
with the original 64MB RAM just does not stand up.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+


"Capt K Ripendran" wrote in message
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I have a HP Pavilion 6511 Desktop with the following:

1. Motherboard - P5S-VM, Supplier -ASUS
2. Base Processor and Speed - 500 MHz AMD K6-2 with 3D Now! technology
3. Chipset - SiS 530
4. Memory - 64 MB SDRAM standard, Speed 100 MHz synchronous.

As it has Three 168-pin DIMM sockets and can take upto 3X128 MB, I had added two
more viz., a 64 and a 128 MB RAM's into the two vacant sockets. The unit was
working well until recently when it had memory problems which I had ascertained
using "Windows Memory Diagnostics". I wanted to verify my diagnosis and so I gave
it to a service centre. They now advise me that the sockets are damaged and
replacing with newer SDRAM also will NOT work and that I have live with the
original 64 MB!

Is there anyway to repair the DIMM sockets without having to replace the
motherboard? In any case it will not be possible to obtain an outdated
motherboard!

Thanking you
Capt K Ripendran

The Tech advises me that placing the RAM in each of the DIMM socket, he was
able to determine that TWO were damaged as they did not recognise them
although it worked for quite sometime. One of the reason I gave the machine
to the Tech was because it was frequently going into fatal exception errors
and hanging! I suppose, I will have to get a 128MB RAM and put it in one
socket!
Thanking you
Regards
Capt K Ripendran

"glee" wrote in message
...
HP Pavilion PCs - Motherboard Specifications, P5S-VM (Osprey) -
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...ectID=bph04949

Exactly how did the service technician determine that the RAM sockets are
damaged?

When you installed the two additional DIMM sticks in the sockets, the
system worked alright, with the additional RAM being recognised properly,
for a period of time....correct?

I am having a hard time accepting that the sockets are bad, unless they
were physically damaged by inserting RAM backwards, with the notch not
lined up with the key.

EVEN if I accept their diagnosis without proof, you could still remove
your original 64-MB stick, and insert a compatible 128-MB stick into that
supposedly "good" socket, to give you 128MB RAM installed. So, their
assertion that you are stuck with the original 64MB RAM just does not
stand up.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+


"Capt K Ripendran" wrote in message
...
I have a HP Pavilion 6511 Desktop with the following:

1. Motherboard - P5S-VM, Supplier -ASUS
2. Base Processor and Speed - 500 MHz AMD K6-2 with 3D Now! technology
3. Chipset - SiS 530
4. Memory - 64 MB SDRAM standard, Speed 100 MHz synchronous.

As it has Three 168-pin DIMM sockets and can take upto 3X128 MB, I had
added two more viz., a 64 and a 128 MB RAM's into the two vacant sockets.
The unit was working well until recently when it had memory problems
which I had ascertained using "Windows Memory Diagnostics". I wanted to
verify my diagnosis and so I gave it to a service centre. They now advise
me that the sockets are damaged and replacing with newer SDRAM also will
NOT work and that I have live with the original 64 MB!

Is there anyway to repair the DIMM sockets without having to replace the
motherboard? In any case it will not be possible to obtain an outdated
motherboard!

Thanking you
Capt K Ripendran