Memory Problems

[McKenzie]

Hi,

I wonder if anyone can help. I am trying to upgrade the memory on my PC, which at present has 128MB PC133 SDRAM. I have bought another, identical DIMM and when used together cause my system to be unstable. A memory test using Norton Ulilities shows error detected at address 239661056. I have tried using different memory slots, and only the error message changes(239669248 & 239665152). Both work fine on their own, producing an identical 3D Mark 2001 score of 1911.

Out of frustration(!!), I bought a 256 PC133 SDRAM DIMM and tried this on its own. It produced the same error. For some reason, my system seems unable to accept more than 128MB RAM and I have memory coming out of my ears!! Please help!!

Ian

[YODA74]

Welcome to PC Guide.
What are your system specs.
motherBoard:
windows etc.
have you ever been into the Bios you might have to so you can do a memory defect isolation to find out what is going on??
Have you cleaned all the slots that these seat in?
Another aspect is that you might have to replace the mobo but we won't go there until some more ideas arise here Post back with some more specs.and by that time some others will jump in.
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[This message has been edited by YODA74 (edited 10-11-2001).]

[ranchdog]

Need to know which Mboard you are dealing with Ian.

Thx.

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[McKenzie]

Thanks, system specs as follows:

1 GHz Athlon, K7VZA Motherboard (made by Elite, I think), Award BIOS, Windows ME, Radeon 64 Mb DDR 3D card, 20 GB hard disc divided into 2 partitions.

I have been into the BIOS, but don't really know what I'm doing! I noticed, for example, that the DRAM clock was set at 100 and tried 133, but it didn't make any difference.

Ian