PC won't recognize new ram

[Robdalton]

We have a POS HP Pavilion 6830 at work that I've been trying to make faster. 64 megs of ram and trying to run WinME just isn't cutting it. Ive tried to add a Kingston 256 meg stick of pc133 but the OS wont recognize it. Still shows as 64 megs (actually 63 megs). Anyway, here's what I've tried so far:

1. I tried switching the order of the ram in the slots, but didn't help.
2. I tried another (different) stick of Kingston 256 pc133, but didn't help.
3. I tried a generic stick of 128 meg pc100, but didn't help.
4. I removed the original 64 meg stick and replaced it with a 256 meg stick it wouldn't boot.
Strange thing is, when I ran SiSoft Sandra it actaully sees the 256 meg stick in one of the memory slots on the motherboard, but Windows does not. I'm stumped.

It's a Celeron 700 running WinME.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[amdskip]

upgrade to win 2k, should solve everything!

 

[Robdalton]

Would love to! But unfortunately it's not an option. WinME is just a glorified Win98 IMO. Besides, if ME won't recognize the ram, I don't think 2K would have any better luck. I think it might be some HP proprietary software/Bios problem.

 

[Robdalton]

*bump* for help? anyone? please?

 

[EeyoreX]

Does the memory meet these requirements?

"SDRAM, 100 MHz, Intel PC SDRAM unbuffered DIMM"

I found this information here

\Dan

 

[Robdalton]

Yes, although it's pc133 ram, but I havent run into a case yet where faster ram was not backwards compatible with slower ram.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: Robdalton
Would love to! But unfortunately it's not an option. WinME is just a glorified Win98 IMO. Besides, if ME won't recognize the ram, I don't think 2K would have any better luck. I think it might be some HP proprietary software/Bios problem.

IMO, Win 98SE is better than WinME. The first thing that popped into my mind when I saw your title was a BIOS limitation. But at 64 MB, that shouldn't be a problem. You might want to flash the BIOS anyway if you are comfortale doing it.

 

[HappyPuppy]

With some older motherboards/bios after physically adding the RAM it was necessary to enter the BIOS, save and exit without actually changing anything. Then reboot.