If you put one in alone it should boot up to 256 megs.  But you are telling me you put the *old* memory in and it booted up fine. It is most likely you got the wrong memory.  For example you may need PC100 and you bought PC200.  Or yours may be old enough that you need the PC33.  What is most likely happening is the computer bus is not fast enough for the new memory.  The specs for your specific computer, including which style memory it takes should be either in the manual or online at hp.com .
 
Charles Mims
 
 


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jen --
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 8:13 PM
To: The Sandbox Discussion List
Subject: [Sndbox] Charles...Question...:-0)

Me bugging you again. :-0)
 
This is kind of weird and hard to explain, so Im just taking a wild guess that maybe you will know what is going on. And Alex might know when he gets home, but....
 
We bought new memory for the computer. Supposedly 512 mb. There are two slots in this computer. I know both are in working order because I put the old memory in both at one time and it booted up fine. It depends which slot the new memory is in on what it does, but basicly the Compaq screen comes up and in the left hand corner it will say "" mb ok. The highest that number has gone up to is 183, after that it either stops altogether and wont finish or it goes to a white screen with a whole bunch of colored dots.
 
Do you now why ? Wrong kind ? Bad memory stick ?
 
Thanks
Jen --
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