No, but as I said in the first post this is put together from old bits and pieces.

Well, they finally replaced the broken DIMM and I ended up with 4 working ones. Still a waste of time and money though as only two of them have the same timings* so the BIOS only recognises 2.75GB as available**. Two are detected as DDR 333 and not DDR 400 but I can't track down the chip number online, so I can't tell whether it's the mobo reading them wrong or whether they supplied the wrong stuff. In any case I can't be arsed to pursue it any longer.

Don't suppose anybody has an old Socket 1156 Motherboard (preferably with 4 memory slots) that they haven't ebayed yet? I have another project in mind.



*four DIMMs - all different.
**yes - flashed the bios, cleared the CMOS, swapped them around, tried about every manual timing I could think of. Windows knows all 4GB is there so I assume the BIOS does too. JUst neither wants to use it all.

2gb is more than enough tbh

You're not by any chance coming across some sort of issue relating to GPU allocation and 32bit OS?

I know it's a long shot.

Actually, I NEED 2GB tbh

Nobody will ever need 2GB tbh. I'm a hardware man, i know this stuff.

I have 2G, and I frequently occasionally feel it's not enough it would be nice to have more. But my muvvaboards maxed out @ 2G.

No, it's 64bit Windows 7 and no graphics remapping or onboard graphics.

The 2.75 GB (actually 2882560 KB) thing crops up in loads of old queries with no real solution, probably because the answer is to go and get a matching set of DIMMs. I don't know why it's that exact amount but I wouldn't be surprised to find it was a quirk of the Award BIOS from a few years back.

Two of the DIMMs have the same chips even though they look different: Samsung K4D5108320-UCCC. Can't find an exact match on the web, but Samsung's charts suggest it's SGRAM (???) 3.3V. Another is Hynix and actually meets the spec. The other DIMM also meets the spec but the timing is different from the Hynix.

It's a pity really, I haven't done much mucking about with hardware for a year or two and I was quite enjoying it. I suppose I was a bit naive to expect I'd get 4 DIMMs with a fighting chance of working together. I'm not even convinced they are all DDR400.
 

I wonder if he's still in Paisley (the town - don't want to think about his clothes tbh)

If I'm honest 2GB is plenty for what I want this box to do most of the time.

Not really the point if you specced and paid for 4GB though.

But then again, I'm not a hardware man.

A wise man once wrote thus:
Yes, it is annoying but then I suppose that they would argue that they've provided what I ordered and if I'd wanted 4GB for one computer I should have told them and they'd charge accordingly.

That said, if it's correct that the DIMMs marked K4D5108320-UCCC are SGRAM (i.e. the memory modules on them are designed for graphics use) then they could hardly have made them more incompatible if they'd tried.

you ordered online, you have the right to reject goods for any (or even no) reason

get them to make it right