Ram upgrade

[bduff509]

I have an Acer Aspire 3210M, AMD K6 , 333mHz. It came with 32Meg ram & I originally tried to upgrade to 256 Meg with a single card not realizing that it needed to be done with two. It would recognize 256 but I don't think it ever used it properly. I just put in two 128 cards but it only sees one of them. When I go to System Info it only shows 128Meg. I've tryed to bring up the bios screen but it only flashes up and then continues to boot. I tried pulling and reseating and swapping the cards in the slots. Nothing is working. Help!

[imbest123]

It could be that the max amount of ram is 128mb.

[Cricket]

Sounds like you're using the wrong density RAM in that system. Or it could be the Aspire requires proprietary RAM instead of generic stuff.

Cricket

[Panama Red]

Here's a link to ram that's guaranteed to work

http://www.crucial.com/store/listpar...210M&submit=Go

[bduff509]

Thanks to all for the responses & Red for the link. I'm supposed to have pc100 cards in this thing (my replacements were pc133. oops). I dug out my original 32meg card & put it back in. I guess I should've paid attention to the "pc100" written right on it. I think it works better now than it did w/256meg of the wrong mem. The 2 128s came from Circuit City & have to go back anyway so I'm going to see if they can beat Crucial's price first. Thanks again.