craigwatanabe
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Upon opening up a Dell Dimension 8100 for non-bootup problems I realize this animal has these memory modules with heat spreaders.
When checking on pricing on these modules, one online memory shop indicates that these particular modules MR16R1628AFO-CK8 800-45 memory modules have been discontinued. Other sites seem to be selling them as normal inventory.
These modules are the 184-pin RDRAM modules not the 232-pin modules. Are these modules prone to keeping a Dell from booting up?
When troubleshooting this Dell computer I unplugged everything from the mobo up to and including swapping power supplies with no luck in the computer even powering up (the CPU fan doesn't come on at all). I even swapped out the Pentium 4 CPU with another and still no boot up.
While searching the internet for an answer, I found this one Google item from another forum indicating this exact memory module failing and not being able to boot up the computer. Are these memory modules that tempermental? I read that these modules must be installed in matched pairs.
For this particular job I'm thinking either the memory module(s) may have gone bad, the mobo went south, or the BIOS is dead (replaced the battery with no change). Before I end up ordering another mobo I'd like to know if the problem could be the memory modules going bad.
Thanks,
Craig
When checking on pricing on these modules, one online memory shop indicates that these particular modules MR16R1628AFO-CK8 800-45 memory modules have been discontinued. Other sites seem to be selling them as normal inventory.
These modules are the 184-pin RDRAM modules not the 232-pin modules. Are these modules prone to keeping a Dell from booting up?
When troubleshooting this Dell computer I unplugged everything from the mobo up to and including swapping power supplies with no luck in the computer even powering up (the CPU fan doesn't come on at all). I even swapped out the Pentium 4 CPU with another and still no boot up.
While searching the internet for an answer, I found this one Google item from another forum indicating this exact memory module failing and not being able to boot up the computer. Are these memory modules that tempermental? I read that these modules must be installed in matched pairs.
For this particular job I'm thinking either the memory module(s) may have gone bad, the mobo went south, or the BIOS is dead (replaced the battery with no change). Before I end up ordering another mobo I'd like to know if the problem could be the memory modules going bad.
Thanks,
Craig
