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- Oct 14, 2001
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- Thousand Oaks, CA
This is an easy one for you.......
I currently have 512 MB of generic PC133 mem in my comp. Today I added 512 MB more of a different generic brand. It's not double density and should be compatible with all MB's. The comp recognizes the correct amount of mem at start up and posts. It goes to the windows loading page, but then hangs up. It loaded windows once in safe mode, but gave a protection error when I tried normal and safe mode after that. I removed the chip and it runs fine now. I seem to remember reading somewhere way back that you can't mix brands of memory, is that true or am I missing something? Could it be a defective chip? I bought it at Fry's electronics so it's probably been in five computers before mine
I currently have 512 MB of generic PC133 mem in my comp. Today I added 512 MB more of a different generic brand. It's not double density and should be compatible with all MB's. The comp recognizes the correct amount of mem at start up and posts. It goes to the windows loading page, but then hangs up. It loaded windows once in safe mode, but gave a protection error when I tried normal and safe mode after that. I removed the chip and it runs fine now. I seem to remember reading somewhere way back that you can't mix brands of memory, is that true or am I missing something? Could it be a defective chip? I bought it at Fry's electronics so it's probably been in five computers before mine