bought micron ram but it doesnt work. help!

[rob3rt]

i just came back from the computer show.
i'm building 2 systems, one is a celeron 800 and the other is a p3 1gz

i also bought supposedly 256mb micron pc133 RAM also. i'm running win2k, and while its loading win2k in DOS i get a blue screen. if i decrease the speed of the RAM in BIOS it boots just fine.

i was wondering if someone can verify the RAMs for me, i tried navigating through micron's site but i guess i'm too stupid 🙁

here is the link of the ram i just bought. copy/paste into the address bar 🙂

http://www.geocities.com/betito79/micron.jpg

 

[slpaulson]

It looks like micron cas3 ram.

 

[rob3rt]

micron cas3 ram should run at 133bus nonetheless right? maybe i got ripped off. grrr. 🙁

 

[T2T III]

<< micron cas3 ram should run at 133bus nonetheless right? >>


Yes, it should run @ 133. You mentioned that you decreased the speed in the BIOS - I'm assuming that you dropped your bus speed back to 100 MHz - correct? When you had your system set to 133 MHz for the bus speed, what were the settings for your memory? Did you have it set to &quot;by SPD&quot;? Or, were the settings for the memory set manually? If they were set manually rather than &quot;by SPD&quot;, there could be one setting that the memory doesn't like @ 133 MHz. Setting the option to &quot;by SPD&quot; will ensure that the timing is set correctly for the memory because the motherboard will read the SPD (Serial Presence Detect) chip for these timings.

Good luck!!

 

[rob3rt]

yea it is on SPD in BIOS. i didnt manually change any settings. i wonder if they gave me pc100 RAM instead, i can't find my RAM on microns site.

 

[rob3rt]

i guess i'll try to exchange it at the fair tomorrow.

 

[bigshooter]

win2k doesn't load in DOS. 🙂

 

[Kingofcomputer]

this is what you bought:
http://www.micron.com/products/datasheet.jsp?path=/DRAM/SDRAM&amp;fileID=5


how much did you pay?
do you know crucial?

 

[T2T III]

<< i wonder if they gave me pc100 RAM instead >>


PC100 memory is 8ns memory - Micron produced 8E, 8C, etc. You definately have PC133 (CAS3) memory.

 

[TunaBoo]

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<< i wonder if they gave me pc100 RAM instead >>


PC100 memory is 8ns memory - Micron produced 8E, 8C, etc. You definately have PC133 (CAS3) memory. >>



PC100 only HAS to be 10NS or less...