increased ram from 512 to 2 Gig, but...

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I got two 1 Gig sticks from Corsair (CMSS1GB-400SOD) for
a Dell Inspiron 9100 laptop. Now, every time it boots, it says memory
has changed and I have to hit F1 to continue. Do I need to update
the BIOS again? I currently am using A06.

Thanks Very Much!!!
 
J said:
I got two 1 Gig sticks from Corsair (CMSS1GB-400SOD) for
a Dell Inspiron 9100 laptop. Now, every time it boots, it says memory
has changed and I have to hit F1 to continue. Do I need to update
the BIOS again? I currently am using A06.
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Have you tried hitting F1?
Thanks Very Much!!!
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I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my
neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in
hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone
marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow
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load cmos defaults or try and clear it. Sounds like the timings or quantity
doesn't agree with the system. what OS are you running and is it able to
even use that much ram efficiently?
 
JAD said:
load cmos defaults or try and clear it. Sounds like the timings or quantity
doesn't agree with the system. what OS are you running and is it able to
even use that much ram efficiently?
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Thanks JAD!!
I am running xp pro. What is best way to clear cmos??

Thanks again!!!

I am getting lots of blue screens now. I did a few benchmark tests from
Sandra Pro SiSoftware 2005 and they did great for memory bandwidth although
the L2 cache seemed low to me (on
the benchmark test) relatively speaking.
 
cmos is the mainboard setup routine. clearing it or entering the setup
screen varies from machine to machine. what model is this rig? have you
done all the updates for the os?
 
JAD said:
cmos is the mainboard setup routine. clearing it or entering the setup
screen varies from machine to machine. what model is this rig? have you
done all the updates for the os?
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Thanks much. This is a Dell Inspiron 9100 w/ xp pro. It uses Phoenix
Technologies bios. I have been in the setup many times and can't find a
default reinstall. I am using version A06 BIOS.
 
Press <F2> during POST to enter the system setup program.



Press <Alt> and <f> to reset the computer defaults.


Press <Esc>, select Save changes and reboot, and press <Enter> to save
configuration changes

HTH
 
JAD said:
Press <F2> during POST to enter the system setup program.



Press <Alt> and <f> to reset the computer defaults.


Press <Esc>, select Save changes and reboot, and press <Enter> to save
configuration changes
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Alt + f was the secret I didn't know. Thanks much!!! I'll let you know how
it works.
 
J said:
Of course, I have to hit F1 to continue each time.
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And you've gone into the bios and saved things (even if you've made no
bios setting changes)?

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spammage trappage: remove the underscores to reply

I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my
neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in
hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone
marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow
transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor:
http://www.abmdr.org.au/
http://www.marrow.org/
 
I booted to Memtest86+ and have ran the series of tests for 5 passes
now without an error. So that should hopefully mean that the new
memory is good (I hope and seriously pray!!!). Those Corsair sticks
cost $300 and I was really worried that they had a problem in them.
 
Well keep praying.. I have been battling a blue screen problem on my desktop
and did everything include running memtest86, goldmem and the new memory
tester from Microsoft. The one from MS refused to tell me that I had ANY
GOOD RAM at all (it said every bit was bad) and the other two refused to
tell me that I had anything wrong with any of it.

2 days ago I took out 1 Gig of my 2 Gig and the system has not run more
stable since.

My RAM was 4 sticks of 512 PC2300 all bought at the same time form the same
vendor. In about a week I am going to swap the 1 Gig I removed for the 1 Gig
in there now and see if things stay stable. I have a feeling that these 2
sticks just refuse to play nice with my other 2.
 
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