RAM compability

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ABBY said:
How do i tell if my RAM are compatible with the computer.
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With careful research.

You can go to www.crucial.com or www.valueram.com
and look up your hardware there.

There are other ways, but it helps to state details
about your hardware.

Retail motherboards, have a tested RAM document on the
motherboard maker web site.

If you have a prebuilt computer, less help is provided
with those.

Paul
 
How do i tell if my RAM are compatible with the computer.
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By not making one mistake I made -- read a system diagnostics util and
bought a stick based on the results. Turned out I bought 224-pin
instead of 184-pin, I needed. Never mind that there's server memory
that won't run in a PC home configuration. Luckily I didn't buy that,
too -- and the extra, wrong stick does work in another, newer computer
I also run (just no empty hole to stick it in).

All the above is true if you buy from the bottom of the barrel,
pulled, or somebody's used memory. Not expensive mistakes, though.
 
By not making one mistake I made -- read a system diagnostics util and

bought a stick based on the results. Turned out I bought 224-pin

instead of 184-pin, I needed.
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I have expected to read, given your history, that you somehow soldered the pins and made the 224 pin into working 184 pin! ;-)

RL
 
I have expected to read, given your history, that you somehow soldered the pins and made the 224 pin into working 184 pin! ;-)

RL
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I mentioned looking at, considering buying server RAM -- which if I
had would have been another strike against buying from bucketfuls of
pulled stuff sold indiscriminately cheap and used. There's boutique
and mainstream shops, as well as places apt to involve charge backs
and disputes, and then, as you say, there's a soldering iron for
learning the difference the hard way.
 
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