Dell Memory Quirky slots and such Anyone experience this
So I got a refurb Dell and it had bad memory. Went to Compusa who verified mem was bad. I bought and put in new memory - all is fine.
So finally got Dell memory in the mail. Put it in and get beep codes with no boot screen.
Okay, so I take the Dell DDR2 memory out and it boots okay.
I put one stick in (now 3 sticks in ) and it boots fine. I add 4th stick (power off and unplugged of course) and get beep codes again. No boot.
So I screw around again and finally all beep codes go away and things seem okay.
Are these machines that freakin touchy or is it just this Dimension 8400? Jeeesh
DO not ask what happened when I enabled hyperthreading in the BIOS even though there is one physical processor. WOuld not boot at all. Had to completely clear BIOS. Man oh man.... What a mistake of a machine.........Proved my own point.
Ben Myers I agree, the majority of people who take the exam referred to in the grandparent post are civil...
Patty.