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I love ram questions, (not easy)\
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my guess is your windows XP virus magnet is stuffed
XP is a dead OS, and has Zero support.
not does HP support it.
so what to do.
well its super easy.
1: boot to a linux live CD or stick
if linux likes it , your XP is hosed, like all are now,hopeless.!
if linux does not like the mem. then you bought the wrong ram.
try to know that BIOS does not get the final call on good mem
all it does really is PnP the spid chip there asking what i is.
and then passes that INFO data to windows.
did you run BIOS memory test? it too is crude,
in the end only a running good windows proves any memory is good. for sure loading a huge photo shop say 5 times.
the new sticks must be 240 pin, DDR2 SDRAM
PC2-3200 MB/sec (minimum)
the must match your CPU,
the Pentium D is old.
and many memory makers do not make ram to fit old CPUs.
2005 PC,a tad old no?
the best place to get it is Kingston or Crucial.
did you? or buy fleabay crapppppp
questions did you run the PC with just 1 , 1GB stick
if that fails and beeps like made the sticks are no good.
then next 1GB stick alone, beeps again, dead pC>
yup wrong DDR2.
the Intel chip you must make happy is the i945p
at its clock rates (called speed)
do look on kingston .com first.
m7350 seem there oldest one. in this line of HP PC.
good luck finding good memory.
have you tested the memory sticks by booting with just one of them ?If yes and they are operational the go into the BIOS and set the memory timings to the slower ones of the both: speed - 533/133 MHz, all latencies at 4.
Actually you are doing better than you think, According to your MB specs it is only supposed to hold a max of 2GB (1GB per slot). The updated BIOS may be allowing for the additional 500MB.
If you would like to verify, here is a link to the manual for your MB:
Your mobo is quite old and its chipset can only support a maximum of 512MB PER SIDE (technically called a bank) of a memory module. I would guess that your 1gb memory module has 8 chips that are all located on one side of the module, putting all of the 1 GB on one bank. Thus, only 512MB of your 1 gb RAM is detected and usable by your motherboard (the remaining 32 mb is most likely being used by your onboard video). You'll need to find a double sided 1 gb memory module (usually 8 chips on each side).
Yes you can run the AGP version of the Radeon 1650 pro on your system. It is always best & recommended to upgrade memory in pairs. You could upgrade to `gb by purchasing a 1 gb kit which would be 512 x 2. That way you have a matching pair of RAM modules. As for a cpu upgrade you can go to the Asus website and see what cpu's are supported by your motherboard. Hope this helps & please remember to rate my answer. Thanks.
I had the same issue on this board where it came with a Samsung 512 MB 533 MHz PC2-4200 DDR2 DIMM. I put in a 1 GB Kingston with the same specs (533 MHz PC2-4200 DDR2) and it would not recongize the Samsung anymore with the system reading as 1 GB of RAM instead of 1.5 GB. Tried every configuration and would only see the Kingston. It would only see the Samsung if I pulled out the Kingston regarless of the slots I use. So, I just bought the exact same make/model of Kingston and it recognized that fine and the system now has 2 GB of memory (max this board allows). And, I had already installed the latest BIOS for this board from Intel before doing all this so wasn't an old BIOS. I'm figuring the board didn't like something about the Samsung memory (speed, module configuration, etc.) that made it not play nice with the Kingston. If interested I bought the DM8400A/1G Kingston modules. And, this board appears not to support dual channel memory. Only has channel A, slots 0 and 1, and I read need two channels to support dual channel (seems obvious). Boards that supports dual channel memory normally have 4 memory slots, two for channel A and two for channel B, then put in matching modules in slot 0 for channel A and B and have dual channel memory access. And if want more ram, then matching modules in slot 1 for channel A and B.
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