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Old Aug 27, 2007 | 09:10 PM
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Anyone know how I would find out the maximum amount of memory my motherboard will take?
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Old Aug 27, 2007 | 09:51 PM
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what motherboard is it ?
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Old Aug 28, 2007 | 07:18 AM
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could try downloading this..
http://filehippo.com/download_everest_home/
will tell you what mobo you have aswell as what memory is installed at the minute ..
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Old Aug 28, 2007 | 08:50 AM
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nice little program Eagle, thanks

Motherboard Name MSI MS-6575E

Right so that's the name of the motherboard, now how much memory can it take? I've got 1279MB installed at the minute
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Old Aug 28, 2007 | 11:50 AM
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fook me not an easy one to find .. google it and there is loads in chinese and french .. but little in english .. even msi don't list it on their site
presume its a Compaq presario

from what i have found... its a 478 chip mobo

Memory Type DDR
Memory Speed PC 2700
Memory Sockets 2 DDR-DIMM
Maximum Memory 1 GB DDR 333/DDR 266

so 1 gig is your limit .. time to get another mobo and upgrade.... or even a new pc...

i love a challenge but that was hard work
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Old Aug 28, 2007 | 11:56 AM
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You were going to fit it yourself i take it? in which case its just as easy to take off the side panel and look, instantly you can see what you have and how many slots you have free.

If eagle found the right mobo then it will only have one or two slots so your screwed
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I found this site, www.crucial.com which does an on-line scan of the motherboard, it says it can take up to 2048MB....
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cool .. looks like your in then ...
my scan and my mobo search came back different tho
is it a compaq then???
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you can get another gig in there then

Eagle my pc(which has many upgarded parts now) was a compaq and that also had a MSI mobo but im not sure which exact one without looking but ive got 4 ram slots on my mobo so i can have up to 4 gigs, but my pc runs games etc happily with 2gigs
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It is a Compaq yeah

I've just had a proper little shuffle about...

There's a 1gb card in the Compaq at the mo and a 256, just taken the 256 out and fitted it to my laptop (which can only run 512 max, oh well ) and my mate is digging me out another 1gb of mem for my main PC.

That leaves me 2x 512 cards for my PC rigged up to my decks which should be plenty as I only record music on it

Complicated ain't the word, but at least I got to use it all up in various places
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