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Spektyr · 03-28-2006, 01:36 PM

Okay, well the fiancee owns a Dell Laptop. Yeah, I know, she wouldn't own it if I'd known her when she was shopping for one.

Anyway, I'm trying to bring this thing into the 21st century for her so she'll stop stealing the desktop I built myself. The main problem with the Inspiron 2600 (aside from being a Dell) is the puny 128mb of system memory.

So I went out and purchased some upgrade memory to install.

And that's where the problems started. As soon as I popped the new memory in the computer refused to boot. It wouldn't even show the Dell BIOS screen or anything. It just sat there and beeped (one long, three short, three short, three short, etc.)

If I take out DIMM B (the bottom "user accessible" slot) it does the same thing, sans beeping. If I take out DIMM A but have DIMM B in, it displays the first problem. I've tried every possible combination with the new memory.

If I put the old memory in, everything works fine (well, as fine as it did originally).

I contacted Dell support, which was useful pretty much only for determining that the error beeps were about the memory. Go figure.

Here's the details:

Old memory sticker:
MT4LSDT864HG-133F2
PC133S-333-542
SG
CBNAZ54010
200221
64MB, SYNCH, 133MHz, CL3

The New memory sticker:
AVD6432U39A31330AVA*
122100-00000002039
256 SDR SODIMM 133
ACSO133X64/256

Brand name: AllComponents (Yes, I know it's cheap stuff.)

So what's the deal? I did my homework and I was sure this was the right kind of memory. Did I make a mistake on the memory type? It fits perfectly physically. Is the computer too stupid to recognize memory sticks with that much room?

Please help, my geek-hood is on the line here.

03-28-2006, 01:36 PM	#1 (permalink)
Spektyr Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 102 OS: XP, Vista Home & Ultimate / Ubuntu "Hardy Heron"	This Dell Laptop threatens my Geek-hood. Okay, well the fiancee owns a Dell Laptop. Yeah, I know, she wouldn't own it if I'd known her when she was shopping for one. Anyway, I'm trying to bring this thing into the 21st century for her so she'll stop stealing the desktop I built myself. The main problem with the Inspiron 2600 (aside from being a Dell) is the puny 128mb of system memory. So I went out and purchased some upgrade memory to install. And that's where the problems started. As soon as I popped the new memory in the computer refused to boot. It wouldn't even show the Dell BIOS screen or anything. It just sat there and beeped (one long, three short, three short, three short, etc.) If I take out DIMM B (the bottom "user accessible" slot) it does the same thing, sans beeping. If I take out DIMM A but have DIMM B in, it displays the first problem. I've tried every possible combination with the new memory. If I put the old memory in, everything works fine (well, as fine as it did originally). I contacted Dell support, which was useful pretty much only for determining that the error beeps were about the memory. Go figure. Here's the details: Old memory sticker: MT4LSDT864HG-133F2 PC133S-333-542 SG CBNAZ54010 200221 64MB, SYNCH, 133MHz, CL3 The New memory sticker: AVD6432U39A31330AVA* 122100-00000002039 256 SDR SODIMM 133 ACSO133X64/256 Brand name: AllComponents (Yes, I know it's cheap stuff.) So what's the deal? I did my homework and I was sure this was the right kind of memory. Did I make a mistake on the memory type? It fits perfectly physically. Is the computer too stupid to recognize memory sticks with that much room? Please help, my geek-hood is on the line here.