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memory test failure
Name: garrett Date: February 23, 2001 at 10:53:07 Pacific
Comment:
i just bought a stick of 128mb pc100 sdram dimm for my pc. i installed it along with the 32mb that was in it already, it installed fine and loaded up with 159.000 mb of ram and was working for 2 days the other night i tried to open macromedias fireworks and i had a fatal eror message. i shut it down and turned it on it had a memory test failuyre. i took the 128 out and just left the 32 and it came back up. did this happen because the 128 ram is not the same company as 32mb of ram? is my memory shot now? please help garrett
Name: Michael Haug Date: February 23, 2001 at 11:00:39 Pacific
Reply:
tried taking out the 32mb ram and putting the 128 in by it self???
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Response Number 2
Name: MrMike Date: February 23, 2001 at 11:01:07 Pacific
Reply:
Did you try the 128meg by itself?
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Response Number 3
Name: Jeremy Date: February 23, 2001 at 11:01:52 Pacific
Reply:
Not sure why it happend. but it sounds like your new stick went bad , yes it is shot. I would take it back.
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Response Number 4
Name: guru Date: February 23, 2001 at 19:15:45 Pacific
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ignore jeremy,the first two answers are closer to the mark.maybe the two types of ram are not compatable.is the 32meg sdram or edo? if its edo it aint compatable with sdram.
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