Re: Memory upgrade

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From: Damian N Leibaschoff [MSFT] (damianl_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 13:15:51 -0500

Hi,
You may want to check with your motherboard manufacturer for any firmware
updates, also specs on the supported memory types, sizes, ECC, etc..
especially in regards to the banks and how they need to be filled (does it
need to be ECC, can the speed be different, does it support 512 on a single
chip, etc).

Regards,
Damian 

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"Dave" <Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:963AFD34-F484-4FB2-9A90-904F51FF79A7@microsoft.com...
> Hi all,
> At present, I have 768 MB RAM in server, with 1150 Pagefile on another
disk,
> went to upgrade the memory to 1 Gb, swapped one stick (256) & replaced
with
> 512, the systems BIOS saw the extra memory, great so far, when It got to
the
> "Windows Starting up" splash screen, it just stayed there, locked up. Put
the
> 256 back in works, put the 512 in a workstation, with XP, works.
> Is there a setting I should do prior to the shutdown to insert the memory?
> Thought it was just as straight forward as "slamming in the RAM"
>
> Thanks in advance
> Dave

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