Memory in wrong slots
Bought two identical HP dc5700's with 1 Gig of RAM and Intel Core 2 Duos....don't remember the number....and its not important. Since the point of this was to get some horsepower for two Adobe CS users (see this thread), I asked the well known Internet retailer to add another Gig of RAM so we'd have two Gigs.
I told CD.....I mean, the major Internet Retailer to just throw the 1 Gig in the box and I'd install. To my surprise both computers came with empty packages for 1 Gig sticks. So I booted up and saw 1.99 Gig RAM in System Properties and assumed all was OK.
One computer was/is fine. The other, after installing over 100 updates with autopatcher, attaching to the domain , installing Office 03, McAfee Enterprise, blah, blah blah, I started getting the same exact memory error for the same exact memory location. I opened the case and found the new 1 Gig stick on mmx1, an HP branded 512 in slot 2 and the other HP branded 512 in slot 4. The other (healthy) computer had the HP 512's in slots 1 & 2, and the new 1 Gig in slot 4.
So my weak knowlege of hardware puts it all together like this. Everything I did yesterday with the screwy memory configuration was crap. I used System Restore to go back 3 hours and it ran like a champ. No problems.
So I don't think I even need to reinstall the Op Sys to be safe. I think I'm right back where I was at noon yesterday and if I install the memory correctly, (512s in 1 & 2, 1 Gig in 4) and start over with everything I'll be OK.
Right?
I told CD.....I mean, the major Internet Retailer to just throw the 1 Gig in the box and I'd install. To my surprise both computers came with empty packages for 1 Gig sticks. So I booted up and saw 1.99 Gig RAM in System Properties and assumed all was OK.
One computer was/is fine. The other, after installing over 100 updates with autopatcher, attaching to the domain , installing Office 03, McAfee Enterprise, blah, blah blah, I started getting the same exact memory error for the same exact memory location. I opened the case and found the new 1 Gig stick on mmx1, an HP branded 512 in slot 2 and the other HP branded 512 in slot 4. The other (healthy) computer had the HP 512's in slots 1 & 2, and the new 1 Gig in slot 4.
So my weak knowlege of hardware puts it all together like this. Everything I did yesterday with the screwy memory configuration was crap. I used System Restore to go back 3 hours and it ran like a champ. No problems.
So I don't think I even need to reinstall the Op Sys to be safe. I think I'm right back where I was at noon yesterday and if I install the memory correctly, (512s in 1 & 2, 1 Gig in 4) and start over with everything I'll be OK.
Right?
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Chipsets and memory size/location mixtures is a funny business.
It sounds like you have this one figured out.
I'm not a hardware expert Sledge....what I know is that when Sys Restore took me back to square one, I was fine...no memory errors. So my theory was that the memory problem might have screwed up everything I had installed yesterday afternoon.
But forget it all. I now put the other new dc5700 on the domain, installed a few things and have the exact same memory error from the exact same memory location. Cleary there is a software problem here. I was so frustrated I walked away. Might go back in tomorrow. This is really Fgg'n bugging me.......:banghead:
Running all 512s will be a little slower than 2x1GB, but it might be nicer on teh controler.