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new ram = blue screen??
Name: bernie Date: March 22, 2003 at 23:18:15 Pacific OS: xp pro CPU/Ram: 1800xp athelon
Comment:
can anyone please help me... i have a 8 month old pc running 256 ddr ram and i have recently bought another 2 sticks of ddr ram (same 266 2100)...but when i put in the 3rd stick i get the blue screen of death!! says stuff about "IRQL not less or equal to" ???
ive swaped the sticks around and works fine with either 2 sticks in...but not 3??
is there anything i need to check in bios ?? ive had old stick and new stick together ...works fine...just not a 3rd. Please help...or suggest who i can ask please Bernie
Name: tropic Date: March 22, 2003 at 23:23:16 Pacific
Reply:
Another wild guess... you need registered memory modules to populate more than two memory slots on your motherboard. Check your motherboard manual to see if I could be right.
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Response Number 2
Name: Jimi_l Date: March 23, 2003 at 01:50:55 Pacific
Reply:
It may simply just be incompatible. I ran into this issue with my Dell Dimension. Even when running all the exact same modules (spec wise) it will sometimes not even boot in any combonation. If I stick with all the same Mfg however, it works fine.
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