These are not chipset limitations. I am almost 100% certain that the variants
of the 845 chipset all support up to 2GB. Some clever little Dell hardware
person may have gummed up the works... Ben Myers
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:50:48 -0400, "Tom Scales" <tjscales@gmail.com> wrote:
>Pretty sure Dell is on that box. I know Crucial says 2G on the 4550 and
>they are absolutely wrong.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: marcy [mailto:marcy1470@hotmail.com]
>> Posted At: Thursday, June 21, 2007 5:24 PM
>> Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
>> Conversation: total memory for dimension 2400
>> Subject: total memory for dimension 2400
>>
>> dell says 1G total.
>> Crucial memory says 2 G total.
>>
>> Who is right??
>
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:22:18 -0400, Ben Myers
<ben_myers_spam_me_not@charter.net> wrote:
>These are not chipset limitations. I am almost 100% certain that the variants
>of the 845 chipset all support up to 2GB. Some clever little Dell hardware
>person may have gummed up the works... Ben Myers
>
I think you're right for the 845gv chipset tho I'm not sure why Dell
says 1GB. Being this mobo is made for Dell, I think it might have a
quirk in that it only goes to 1GB but this is just a guess on my part.
I just replaced a HD in a dimension 2400 today but it had only 768
megs of memory in 2 slots so I can't say what its max is.
On Jun 21, 5:17 pm, RnR <rnrte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:22:18 -0400, Ben Myers
>
> <ben_myers_spam_me_...@charter.net> wrote:
> >These are not chipset limitations. I am almost 100% certain that the variants
> >of the 845 chipset all support up to 2GB. Some clever little Dell hardware
> >person may have gummed up the works... Ben Myers
>
> I think you're right for the 845gv chipset tho I'm not sure why Dell
> says 1GB. Being this mobo is made for Dell, I think it might have a
> quirk in that it only goes to 1GB but this is just a guess on my part.
>
> I just replaced a HD in a dimension 2400 today but it had only 768
> megs of memory in 2 slots so I can't say what its max is.
That implies a maximum at least 1 gb. as 768 in 2 slots =512+256.
Where one stick of 512 goes, another can usually be added. Of course
you COULD look it up, but what's the fun in THAT?
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:03:55 -0700, "paulmd@efn.org" <paulmd@efn.org>
wrote:
>On Jun 21, 5:17 pm, RnR <rnrte...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:22:18 -0400, Ben Myers
>>
>> <ben_myers_spam_me_...@charter.net> wrote:
>> >These are not chipset limitations. I am almost 100% certain that the variants
>> >of the 845 chipset all support up to 2GB. Some clever little Dell hardware
>> >person may have gummed up the works... Ben Myers
>>
>> I think you're right for the 845gv chipset tho I'm not sure why Dell
>> says 1GB. Being this mobo is made for Dell, I think it might have a
>> quirk in that it only goes to 1GB but this is just a guess on my part.
>>
>> I just replaced a HD in a dimension 2400 today but it had only 768
>> megs of memory in 2 slots so I can't say what its max is.
>
>That implies a maximum at least 1 gb. as 768 in 2 slots =512+256.
>Where one stick of 512 goes, another can usually be added. Of course
>you COULD look it up, but what's the fun in THAT?
>
>
>
Yeah I think the max is 1GB but technically I can't prove it. But I
see where you're coming from.
This is not by any means diffinitive, but I had a 1GB PC2700 DIMM laying
around (not even sure it is good). I pulled the memory from my 2400 and
it wouldn't even boot with the DIMM. The Dell logo displays and it
locks up.
I put the old memory back in and it boots fine (640MB).
Tom
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RnR [mailto:rnrtexas@gmail.com]
> Posted At: Friday, June 22, 2007 8:40 AM
> Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
> Conversation: total memory for dimension 2400
> Subject: Re: total memory for dimension 2400
>
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:03:55 -0700, "paulmd@efn.org" <paulmd@efn.org>
> wrote:
>
> >On Jun 21, 5:17 pm, RnR <rnrte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:22:18 -0400, Ben Myers
> >>
> >> <ben_myers_spam_me_...@charter.net> wrote:
> >> >These are not chipset limitations. I am almost 100% certain that
> the variants
> >> >of the 845 chipset all support up to 2GB. Some clever little
Dell
> hardware
> >> >person may have gummed up the works... Ben Myers
> >>
> >> I think you're right for the 845gv chipset tho I'm not sure why
Dell
> >> says 1GB. Being this mobo is made for Dell, I think it might have
a
> >> quirk in that it only goes to 1GB but this is just a guess on my
> part.
> >>
> >> I just replaced a HD in a dimension 2400 today but it had only 768
> >> megs of memory in 2 slots so I can't say what its max is.
> >
> >That implies a maximum at least 1 gb. as 768 in 2 slots =512+256.
> >Where one stick of 512 goes, another can usually be added. Of course
> >you COULD look it up, but what's the fun in THAT?
> >
> >
> >
>
> Yeah I think the max is 1GB but technically I can't prove it. But I
> see where you're coming from.
total memory for dimension 2400 
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