dude, RAM!

Post by **TezzRexx** » December 25th, 2005, 17:07

Herro dudes, i'm having a little problem.

My dad got me a 1 GIG Stick of RAM, but I can only use it on its own, and I can't use it with my 512 Corsair stick of RAM I had before.

Is there a way so I can use both?

cheers.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » December 25th, 2005, 17:08

probably.

depends on the motherboard and stuff.

Post by **TezzRexx** » December 25th, 2005, 18:43

Herro again, apparently I may need to upgrade my bios for two different bands to work =/

Will PC world do BIOS upgrades for you? As I'd rather have some major company with insurance then risk it.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » December 25th, 2005, 18:47

i dunno, probably.

either way, it's generally dead easy, especially on newer mobos

Post by **deject** » December 25th, 2005, 19:51

what brand of board is it?

Post by **Roman Totale** » December 25th, 2005, 20:04

deject wrote:what brand of board is it?

Smorgas

Post by **TezzRexx** » December 25th, 2005, 20:41

its a gigabite nforce 3 socket 754

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » December 25th, 2005, 21:21

http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

Post by **deject** » December 26th, 2005, 6:13

do it yourself. it's easy. I mean, even if you need to do it in DOS (which I highly doubt) it's not hard at all.

http://www.gigabyte-usa.com/Motherboard ... S_List.htm

http://www.gigabyte-usa.com/MotherBoard ... lash_1.htm

Post by **TezzRexx** » December 27th, 2005, 12:29

Cheers, I know it should be easy, but, when your a virgin, you know it's going to be hard. Or at least worrying.

Wiggy · Post by **Wiggy** » December 27th, 2005, 14:16

I had to do a BIOS flash once, as far as I can remember it wasn't that hard. You have to load an exe and the new BIOS file onto a floppy and just boot from that. It does the rest itself. Just make sure you have the right BIOS file.

Post by **deject** » December 27th, 2005, 15:45

Actually the new mobos can do a BIOS flash from inside Windows, so this has gotten much much easier. As long you follow the instructions in the link I gave you you should have no problems at all.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » December 27th, 2005, 15:52

yeah, it's all pretty easy nowdays, don't think i've ever had a problem

Post by **deject** » December 27th, 2005, 16:30

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:yeah, it's all pretty easy nowdays, don't think i've ever had a problem

I started flashing the BIOS on my first Athlon board with a bad floppy drive. Thankfully the motherboard could boot a floppy to reflash in case my BIOS was hosed. Now with these Windows Flash Utilities, it's almost painless.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » December 27th, 2005, 16:34

however, flashing bioseses off of bootable cds, that's another matter. hate it.

Post by **deject** » December 27th, 2005, 16:42

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:however, flashing bioseses off of bootable cds, that's another matter. hate it.

yeah that would suck

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » December 28th, 2005, 9:01

Roman_Totale wrote:
deject wrote:what brand of board is it?
Smorgas

With these tips you are really spoiling us

Post by **TezzRexx** » December 28th, 2005, 15:41

Hey again guys

after finding my old CPU-Z specs and comparing them with my new ones, the only difference I have found with the ram is:

The new 1 gig has a DRAM Frequency of 208.0 mhz

The old 512 ram has a DRAM Frequency of 201.0 mhz

Could this be anything to do with it??

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » December 28th, 2005, 18:04

nope, nothing to do with it.

Post by **TezzRexx** » December 28th, 2005, 22:37

UPDATE:

I now have both peices of RAM working normally :D

but, on CPU-Z, it says my RAM is running at a frequency of 167.5mhz

Is that normal?