Re: DDR2 question

On Thu, June 25, 2009 1:00 pm, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:39:29AM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote:
>> On Wed, June 24, 2009 12:31 am, Dion wrote:
>> the 800 were $45 against $75 for the 'correct one', hence, I'd rather
>> get the 'cheap' one
>
> I had a similar issue upgrading the ram on a laptop.
> The 400Mhz (?) was $100 / 1gb, the up-spec 553Mhz was $20 / 1gb
> It 'worked', sort of.  I could only put the up-spec in the second
> slot.  The original dimm had to be left in slot0 to even boot up.
> I guess the bus tried to go up to the ram speed, but something in the
> chain wasn't fast enough.  Having the slower ram in the first slot
> established the correct speed I gues, and forced the second slot to the
> same lower speed - which of course the up-spec ram could handle.

Matt,

thanks, as it it, I ended up getting the Aspire, but, not the RAM, as yet

I guess I'll try to test the module 1st, this only has a single slot


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