Memory Too Slow!

[gamingguy27]

Hello, my friend has a pc which i have recently built for him, it only has 128mb of ram so i decided to upgrade to 512mb of ram. When i intalled the new ram which was manafactured by crucial it ran SLOWER than the 128mb which was the exact same speed and type. The BIOS detected the ram in slot 1 as 512 and working (very slowly) however in slot 2 it did not work at all! the problem is not the page file usuage as that is fine.

Here are the specs:

P4 1.50GHZ Skt 476
PC133 SDRAM (DIMM)
MS-6534 MSI Motherboard

P.S BOTH ram sockets work perfectly and when i switched them around the same problem happend

 

[Tedster]

did the new ram have the same CL latency? 1 , 2, or 3?

Ram will run as fast as the slowest stick in the system.

your new stick must have a slower latency.

 

[gamingguy27]

The timings were the same, allthough the 512mb took far longer to load windows. The timings for the ram modules were 3.3.3.7 (CL3). Also the NVRAM bios check found the ram to be functioning fine.

Alex