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Old PC Help
Topic Started: Mar 25 2008, 08:36 PM (154 Views)
ZeroTM
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So I've tried upgrading tge older PC of mine that I no longer use, but it's still for the rest of the family.

Basically I've had it since 2003, it's a Sony VAIO, the motherboard is a P4S533-VX.

I've had no problems with it. Recently I put in 1 PC2700 333MHz 512MB Stick, and 2 Other 512MB Sticks at PC3200 400MHz. (There's only 3 slots. Total 1.5GB)

I ran a 3DMark03 benchmark and wanted to see the results for possibly dual channel so I turned off the PC, removed the 333MHz 512MB Stick from the middle slot and booted up the PC.

After that I can't even get past the BIOS, I tried putting it back in, or running a single 333MHz stick and no luck. No matter what I do the PC just shuts off just before the Windows Loading screen, even with safe mode.

The hard drive is being detected along with its capacity so I don't think that died? The CPU seems to be working fine and I even downclocked it from 2.59 to the original 2.4 and still the PC wouldn't boot up. Videocard is still functioning, motherboard is responding.

I can't figure this out. Help?
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Kage
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Never ever mix Ram....
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ZeroTM
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Mixed ram always worked for me, and these sticks were working fine too until that.
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IrishDragon
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Can you actually ACCESS the bios?

If so, have you tried reseting the bios?

If not, have you tried updating or just reloading the current version bios?

And agreed. Don't mix memory. Your bios can't compute two different memory speeds. What you did is essentially the equivalent of driving a car on the highway and slamming it into reverse...multiple thousands of times... cars don't like that. XD
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ZeroTM
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Memory brand or clock speed? The higher clocked sticks would just clock down to the lowest installed memory.

I've had a 512 133mhz and a 1GB 200mhz in there working for years.

I've accessed the BIOS and tried to load defaults before (if that's called reseting?), nothing worked.

It won't even start up with any one of the RAM sticks.
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IrishDragon
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Have you tried booting the machine with the original memory in different slots?

I assume it was at least two memory slots
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There are 3 slots. I gave the old RAM away to my friend.

My guess right now is that the PC may have kept the old 133mhz timings from the old ram to work with the new 333mhz/400mhz sticks, which might not be supported?
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Ack, didn't read that originally. :blink:

Bad! Bad! Bad ZeroTM!

Most mother boards aren't designed to handle that big of a change in memory speeds. If it's a 133MHz board and you got away with 200MHz (which was probably dumbed down to 133MHz) then you were fortunate enough. Jumping up to 333 and 400 was a big mistake.

Holla, go spend a dolla and get some 133 or 200 back in that system.

I too could use a 133MHz 512 or 256 chip myself (512 would be nice)
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