[Scgeeks] Re: RAM voltages

[Twayne]

> Wasn't Crucial's application able to 'sense' the motherboard?
> Did you try that tool, or just go through the menus?

Both:
It could read the data for what was in the machine but that was all; no 
recommendation because the mfg etc. were unknown.  Once I knew what was 
in the machine for sure I started looking and came across the voltage 
issue.
   And menues were no good; that brand isn't covered.

Turns out: The RAM PC3200 could have been and really should have been, 
PC2700 I think it was.  A 2.5V RAM stick.

>
> "Twayne" <nobody at devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
> news:g7tle6$2n6$1 at news.spamcop.net...
>> Hi nerdettes & nerdudes,
>>
>> Got a little problem with RAM specs and Crucial's a black hole, as
>> are the ms HW AND SW newsgroups I've asked on.  So maybe someone
>> here has an answer; wouldn't be the first time<g> spamcop's come
>> thru for me: I need to add RAM to a Walmart "special".  It's a 
>> 'Balance Digital
>> Electronics' machine which means "Dig like hell for any information
>> on it about anything".
>>  The currently installed RAM, according to Sys Info and SIW is an
>> SSTL 2.5V RAM, but the only RAM I can find anywhere says it's 2.6V.
>>
>>   So, the questions:
>>    Does it matter?
>>   Will 2.6V work fine where it says SSTL 2.5V is currently installed?
>>   Would one of each work together or do they have to both be the
>> same? It's pretty common RAM otherwise:  PC3200-400MHz, non-ecc, non 
>> EPP,
>> etc. But that voltage is giving me fits trying to work out.
>> What IS the 2.5 and 2.6V??  Is it a threshold?  Is it a level where,
>> say, low is guaranteed to be anything below 2.6 (or 2.5) V?  I ask
>> because, near as I can tell, the RAM supply itself is 3.3V, so ...
>> 2.xV sounds like a threshold or hysterisis area.
>>
>> It's "cute", actually:  the label on the front says Intel 3.0 GHz/XP
>> Home, and inside you find a 2.4GHz processor running at 2.4 GHz,
>> using 3.066 GHz RAM, with a cpu cooler for up to 2.2 GHz, and 256
>> Meg of RAM. And the cpu fan blows the heat out of the heat sink and
>> right into the intake of the fan for the switching power supply!  I
>> took the cpu temp from 68C down to 41C just by putting in a copper
>> heatsink and properly sized fan, plus a piece of foil to direct
>> theheat toward the case vents instead of into the psu.  No WONDER
>> Walmart specials are sooo, special! Holy shit, anyone could sell
>> cheap machines too building them that way! Apparently there's dumb
>> and then there's Walmart a few rungs below that. I'd hate to ever
>> meet those Balance engineers!  What morons they must be. Regards,
>>
>> Twayne