New memory

Lexander · February 18, 2009, 07:49:38 AM

If there are 3 modules, there has to be 1 x 512 and 2 x 256 right ?
At least my old mobo had problems with different size of modules, I had to run it in 2 x 512 to get 1024 in total. I really can't explain it, but maybe this is a same kind of situation.

Jabbs · February 18, 2009, 06:52:26 PM

I find Everest is a very useful program to tell you about what kind of hardware you have in your pc. You dont have to install it, just run the everest.exe application file from CD, hard disk, flash drive or whatever.

http://www.lavalys.com/

Simply run the program and look down the left hand side for Motherboard and it will tell you exactly what you have. You can even copy and past information from it into (for instance) a post on here.

EDIT: The downloaded version I have has to be installed it seems - gonna test to see whethere it runs on another pc without installing now

da_Ricci · February 18, 2009, 09:07:28 PM

I did found something with Jabbs program:

Moederbordnaam ASRock K7S8XE v1

kregoron · February 18, 2009, 09:18:26 PM

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=K7S8XE&s=

this would be the board then.. looks like it does have some module limitations, ill be going through the board data, tonight and your dxdiag.. and just browse some forums, ill get back to you as soon as i find a solution. hopufully

kregoron · February 18, 2009, 09:26:20 PM

question: does the memory have chips on both sides or just one.. certain older boards had issues ready memory moduls with chips on both sides, after a bit of forum browsing, the ASROCK K7S8XE v1 seems to be one of em..

da_Ricci · February 18, 2009, 09:45:11 PM

Quote from: kregoron;264734question: does the memory have chips on both sides or just one.. certain older boards had issues ready memory moduls with chips on both sides, after a bit of forum browsing, the ASROCK K7S8XE v1 seems to be one of em..

Yes the chips are on both sides. Can i just upgrade the motherboard?
Ore do i have to waith.
Do you have a site where i can download it for free.
Thanks for the help

kregoron · February 18, 2009, 10:05:20 PM

well i can find a site with the BIOS for the K7S8XE, but apperently there is about 7 different revisions of the mother board, so gotta be sure im finding the right one for you

flashing with the wrong bios can brick your motherboard

kregoron · February 19, 2009, 09:26:52 AM

Quote from: da_Ricci;264736Yes the chips are on both sides. Can i just upgrade the motherboard?
Ore do i have to waith.
Do you have a site where i can download it for free.
Thanks for the help

Does all the memory modules installed have chips on both sides btw?

da_Ricci · February 19, 2009, 05:03:34 PM

yes the memory modules have chips on both sides.
But the new ones are covered with something.
This is on the chips: oc2 pc 3500 256 meg ddr dual ch el ddr

Anonymous · February 19, 2009, 05:11:54 PM

Those chips are 256Mb chips. That means if you fit two then you have 512Mb of RAM. How many chips to you have fitted to your motherboard? If two then you DO only have 512Mb ram. You would need to buy 2 x 512Mb chips to get 1Gb of RAM

DuVeL · February 22, 2009, 07:08:58 PM

I'll be looking in to this.
I gave him some RAM I bought at the LAN and should have some DDR2 RAM still laying around from my last upgrade from my Shuttle.

I guess he really wants to play L4D hehe...

da_Ricci · February 22, 2009, 07:48:02 PM

Yes i do want to play L4D.
So please bring me the new memory.

da_Ricci · February 23, 2009, 10:18:15 PM

Quote from: BlueBall;264848Those chips are 256Mb chips. That means if you fit two then you have 512Mb of RAM. How many chips to you have fitted to your motherboard? If two then you DO only have 512Mb ram. You would need to buy 2 x 512Mb chips to get 1Gb of RAM

I do have 2 chips of 512Mb but they dont fit in.
They are just a little bit too big. Is that possible ?
Now i have 768Mb on 3 chips.
And i can play L4D but grapics are not that good.
Do you have some idea's.

DuVeL · February 25, 2009, 08:19:32 AM

It seems his motherboard uses standard DDR memory and the 2 I gave him were DDR2 so that's why they don't fit.
I still had some old DDR laying around so now he has 3x 256MB.

Got to say, his comp is allready several years old now. L4D does work now but not at it's best.
My suggestion would be to save the computercase, get a new motherboard, graphix card and memory (and check if the powersupply can handle it). Seems loads of these are getting cheaper due to the recession.
And also for him to get more diskspace.

Might be an idea that if he wants to get some new parts to post how much he's willing to spend.

So bro, as your comp is allready more then 5 years old, do you want to get a new one or upgrade this setup?

da_Ricci · February 25, 2009, 07:07:52 PM

I think I would like an upgrade.
So what can i buy for almost â,¬300 euro's