Hey peeps...... A friend of mine who currently has a Dell Dimension 8200 I believe... wanted to upgrade his RAM. So he opened up the case to see what kind of RAM was already in (bandwidth-wise) When doing so, he found that there were 4 RAM Slots... 2 of which were being occupied by 2x 128 Sticks... but the other two were BLANK RAM Sticks...... just pieces of silicon with no memory modules....... So, he takes out the blank chips.... [leaves the normal ones in] tries to boot up...... and notta... just like beeps........ My question being...... what is the point of these crazy things....... would you think it has to do with power usage? or what? __________-SamZee-__________

Hi Try ctspd ctspd page The page in in dutch but the program will work in english. Its a neat program for pc66 pc100 pc1333 ram. It can tell you what is in each slot. Try memtest86 for a memory checker to go over all the ram. Why the other ram is reading "Nada" I do not know. (I could never remember how to spell that cool word so eventually I bookmarked it in the web dictionary)

its RDR RAM it needs those blank modules to complete the circuit if you will all the slots have to be occupied, also RDRAM is quite abit more expensive than DDR! Q-TEC 550 Watt PSU MSI VIA KT4AV-L 2800+ Barton 512 DDR333 GeForce4 Ti 4200 128Mb Aero 7 Lite 80Gb Samsung ATA133 HDD 120Gb WD ATA100 HDD LiteOn LDW-851S LiteOn LTR-52246S

mistake its RDRAM not RDRRAM Q-TEC 550 Watt PSU MSI VIA KT4AV-L 2800+ Barton 512 DDR333 GeForce4 Ti 4200 128Mb Aero 7 Lite 80Gb Samsung ATA133 HDD 120Gb WD ATA100 HDD LiteOn LDW-851S LiteOn LTR-52246S

Ah, thanx guys, I'll tell him.... By the way.... could some one give me an idea of what the main differences are between DDR and RDR? __________-SamZee-__________

> main differences between DDR and RDRAM? heh... I'll probably get flamed for this, but hey someone's gotta say it. Differences: DDR RDRAM Affordable Crazily Overpriced Most Mobos few "special" boards Actually Faster Faster in "theory" Still Used Hardly Supported Here's a link for good reading: http://www.overclockers.com/tips00277/ http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/article/CA219110?pubdate=5%2F27%2F2002 - Michael

heh.. the comparison chart didn't quite turn out how I wanted it too... here I'll post it again a little differently: DDR- Affordable Most Mobos Actually Faster Still Used RDRAM- Crazily Overpriced few "special" boards Faster in "theory" Hardly Supported