I have four slots for Ram, two black two blue, and the two black are occupied by two 256mb. I recently got a 1gb of ram and installed it in the 2nd slot witch is blue but when i turn it on, nothing appears on the screen and the computer makes this loud beeping sound. when i move the two 256mb ram to the last two slots, blue and black, and put the 1gb of ram in the first slot, it works so my question is will i be able to buy another 1 gb of ram without having the computer beep and stuff.
Sorry for the long question
2007-04-30 14:19:58 · 5 answers · asked by lilkoolaznboy89 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
First, you must know your mother board. each motherboard has a capacity of their set memory. Like mine, my motherboard has the capacity maximum of 4Gig of ram, so before buying another ram, you must know first what is the maximum capacity your motherboard can handle.
2007-04-30 14:28:00 · answer #1 · answered by JP 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of these earlier machines only support 2G maximum. You will need to remove the other 256M ram. Before you buy any more, right click my computer and select properties. See that it is showing all the ram you have.
2007-04-30 14:24:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
iam_dsb is right but you can go into your bios and disable using your memory as dual-channel. You should then be able to use all 1.5 GB of RAM
2007-04-30 14:24:53 · answer #3 · answered by georgiab 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats funny that it would do that. Before buying more ram make sure that your computer can handel it. Most computers have a limit to how much ram they can handel.
2007-04-30 14:23:41 · answer #4 · answered by mikeh0303 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sound like your board take dual-channel memory, so they normally go in pairs
2007-04-30 14:22:58 · answer #5 · answered by Cupcake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋