Okay... I was dumb and wanted to get rid of the Packard Bell I was using. I found a Hewlett Packard with a K6-2 333 MHz (this was a step up from the Packard Bell) that was going for like $5 at the time I found it. The seller listed the following:
AMD K6-2 333 MHz
8 GB Hard Drive
128 MB RAM
CD-ROM
Floppy Drive
56K LT Win Modem
8 MB Video
2 USB Onboard
Sound Card Onboard
Original Software HP Software (Restore Disk)
I contact the seller to see if I could pick it up since it was only a 20 minute drive from my house. The seller agrees to this and I ask to make sure that this computer takes DIMMs for memory. He tells me that it does and then e-mails me back this:
"I just checked and it turns out that the computer had 64mb when I bought it and I put a 128mb (I think PC133) so it is actually around 192mb now."
I end up winning the auction for $45 and think that I've made out on the deal. I pick the computer up and give him $50 for letting me pick up the computer instead of paying shipping. I get the computer home and start it up to find out in the BIOS that there's only 64 MB of RAM. I think to myself that maybe he didn't have the RAM seated in properly so I'll open up the case and find out. I was wrong. There were 2 chips of 32 MB DIMMs in the board.
Everything else on the computer checks out except for the memory and the USB problem I'm having (I think it's because I didn't install Windows XP with my MS USB optical mouse plugged in). What do you think I should do?
UPDATE #1: E-mailed him with the following at 9:45 PM:
"Hey... just a quick question for you. You said in the one e-mail that you added 128 MB of PC133 SDRAM. It's showing up as 64 MB in the BIOS and both chips are identical 32 MB DIMMs. Did I miss something here?
Jeff"
UPDATE #2: Response to e-mail at 12:08 AM:
I made a mistake I have the 128 stick here do you want to
meet again tomorrow?
call me at xxx-xxx-xxxx
My bad
jp
Now that's what I call sweet.
AMD K6-2 333 MHz
8 GB Hard Drive
128 MB RAM
CD-ROM
Floppy Drive
56K LT Win Modem
8 MB Video
2 USB Onboard
Sound Card Onboard
Original Software HP Software (Restore Disk)
I contact the seller to see if I could pick it up since it was only a 20 minute drive from my house. The seller agrees to this and I ask to make sure that this computer takes DIMMs for memory. He tells me that it does and then e-mails me back this:
"I just checked and it turns out that the computer had 64mb when I bought it and I put a 128mb (I think PC133) so it is actually around 192mb now."
I end up winning the auction for $45 and think that I've made out on the deal. I pick the computer up and give him $50 for letting me pick up the computer instead of paying shipping. I get the computer home and start it up to find out in the BIOS that there's only 64 MB of RAM. I think to myself that maybe he didn't have the RAM seated in properly so I'll open up the case and find out. I was wrong. There were 2 chips of 32 MB DIMMs in the board.
Everything else on the computer checks out except for the memory and the USB problem I'm having (I think it's because I didn't install Windows XP with my MS USB optical mouse plugged in). What do you think I should do?
UPDATE #1: E-mailed him with the following at 9:45 PM:
"Hey... just a quick question for you. You said in the one e-mail that you added 128 MB of PC133 SDRAM. It's showing up as 64 MB in the BIOS and both chips are identical 32 MB DIMMs. Did I miss something here?
Jeff"
UPDATE #2: Response to e-mail at 12:08 AM:
I made a mistake I have the 128 stick here do you want to
meet again tomorrow?
call me at xxx-xxx-xxxx
My bad
jp
Now that's what I call sweet.
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