Compaq presario ram
I run into people all the time who have been told over and over, that whatever is on the drive is always easily retrievable even after being erased with zero-fill, but...
Hello, I would like to upgrade the memory of my Apple Laserwriter 8500 which was made in 1998. I have found many...
Kenneth, your problem is likely due to a chip density issue. Most of the PC133 DIMM modules made today use higher density 256 megabit chips, instead of the older 128 megabit chips used when your computers were built years ago. They use the new high density chips because this way, fewer chips are needed on the module for a given capacity. For example, a 128megabyte DIMM module would typically have eight 128mbit (16 megabyte) chips. But with todays modules, 128 MB DIMMs now usually come with four 256mbit (32 megabyte) chips instead. How does this relate to your problem? Well, some motherboard chipsets like the Intel 440BX, 810, 815 and a couple non-intel chipsets, do not work with, or recognize modules that use the newer 256mbit chips, even though they may support the capacity of the module otherwise. Your 256 megabyte DIMM probably has eight 256mbit chips and your Compaq simply cannot deal with it. The other computer conversely probably does not have a chipset that has this limitation with newer memory. Not all of them did. The best thing for you to do is go to www.crucial.com and use their memory configurator to select the proper memory for your exact Compaq computer model, and you should get memory that is fully compatible with it.