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man with no head

I did. Nothing comes up for Corsair and PC2300 other than some posts on some forums and a random listing on ebay where the numbers are obviously switched (DDR400 as shown must be PC3200 and not PC2300 as the auction claims)

Viking? Same thing. Nothing listed on their site (and they still have PC2100/2700/3200 listed).

I stand by my contention as posted that PC2300 is not a standard memory type unless you can prove otherwise.

man with no head

Search for yourself: the JEDEC specifications for DDR memory (hint: there is no standard for anything remotely called PC2300/142):

http://download.micron.com/pdf/misc/JEDEC79R2.pdf

RDN

Yes, 512 of these:



But you'd better make sure what the max size you can put in each slot is. My old lap top can only take 2 sticks of 128 MB each stick, which is why it runs so slowly.

So don't buy a 1 GB or 512 MB stick if your PC can't use it.

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man with no head

He's got a Celeron socket 478; he's fine with 1GB in any slot (the motherboard likely supports 2GB-4GB).

man with no head

You mean hard drive failures or simply losing data?

RDN

I think you should start a thread like "The Best PC For Your Money" and tell us what you would put in it and why. I'm sure it would be a 100+ post thread!

friscofrankie

if you don;t have the manual take the fuckin machine down to the shop tell 'em you want 512 RAM and let 'em install it.

benbaaa

But copy any valuable files, pictures or movies to DVDs before you do. 'Cos if Somchai says he'll back stuff up for you before he does anything, he's lying.

friscofrankie

Ram replacement takes, at most, four minutes you stand over him while he does it. it boots, the ram registers. go home

benbaaa

Well at MediaMagic in Computer Plaza it took them a week, they deleted all my files and programs and gave me back a computer full of shit I didn't want and completely empty of the things I did want...

benbaaa

Ok, to be fair, they were also fixing that intermittant power failure problem.

Thetyim

Can someone expand a bit on what LOM mentioned earlier .
You've got a slow and dumb ramstick (no error correction, not buffered, not registered)
That description fits my own RAM.
Will quality RAM make much difference ?

friscofrankie

Can of worms:
Opened
This link might help but then it might confuse you even more.

Howstuffworks "Types of RAM"

blackgang

I had a RAM once, one of the suffock I was told, and he was so dumb he tried to screw the other rams sometimes.
Then he wanted to fight my dad, so he got shot and we ate him.

lom

So what did they do, replace your power supply unit ?

benbaaa

They deleted all my photos from the last 3 years and every mp3 file. They left a few bits of porn and some word documents.

friscofrankie

sounds like they formatted/swapped your HD and forgot to get all the extra bits backed up

lom

Ok, so that was what got your computer up and running again.

friscofrankie

^after a couple of years dealing with end-users I lost most all of my patience.

Getting an accurate description of what did happen or what was happening is next to impossible. I have always used the method of "Do this, now what do you see?" Oh, OK, do that, NOW what do you see?"

No offense to end users, but whenever they have problems their descriptions can be less than helpful without step by step guidance and the strict adherence to the "NO Interpretation" rule. I am sure BB would have been more than happy with a PC that worked without regard to why it didn't if he had got all his data back I am equally sure any explanation of what happened would whistle in the left and straight out the right ear without sticking to a single brain cell.

I much preferred the completely uninitiated to them fuckin PC magazine readers that would come to work and try the latest Whiz-bang utility or super config setting on their work PC that I had spent months designing for reliability and proper integration into a COE with 1000's of users to keep running. Them fuckers would lose any "personal data" and get brand-spanking new image loaded on their machine.

I think working in a shop where the public came in for repair or trouble-shooting would drive me fuckin' nuts. They're "Customers?" You gotta be "nice??" Fuck that.

Typical conversation,
Dim-witted dude: "that computer yuo setup for me doesn't work"
me: "What doesn't work?"
DWD: "Nothin"
ME: "Does it boot up?"
DWD: "Yes"
ME: "Can you surf the web?"
DWD: "yes"
ME: "Ok, again, WHAT DOESN'T WORK?"
DWD: "I can't hear my music"
ME: "OK what did you change?"
DWD: "Nothin"
Me: "... Did anyone else change anything?"
DWD: "well my buddy came over and installed this really cool music download thingy and CD burner all in one"
Me: "Then why don;t you call you buddy?"
DWD: "AH, he don't know; he doesn't know shit about computers"
ME: "..."

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ChiangMai noon

^
see, that just illustrates the point.
You understand what you arr talking about wheras us end users don't.
The whole thing is a bit of a journey to enlightenment for me.
The fact that i can post screenshots taken from a piece of software that Surasak told me to download from a site called "geeks dot com" of all things makes me all overbrimmed with pride.
Would like to ask those bastards what they thought of the French front row changes against ireland.

Anyway.. to get back to your earlier question Frankie. I could pop down to the computer shop, but I don't have a car.
I also find threads like this fairly informative for me and i'm willing to bet shovel to shit that most of us in the world haven't a fukking clue of something that would be naturally ridiculously easy to you.
unfortunately, nobody has yet asked what club they'd recommend from 189 yards at the par 3 17th in Green Valley.

I am extremely grateful for the advice, the computer forum is by far and away my favourite on here.
Cheers all.

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