JDMFantasy2K

I want to upgrade my PC's ram after christmas. I have an IBM S50 8183, and it has 2 slots, one filled with 512Mb of DDR333. So is it possible to throw a 1gb stick in there along with the 512, or does each socket need to be of matching capacities? What about brands? So i guess my question is, is it okay to mix and match.

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Thanks for the answers to my previous, now i have a new one. I got a new hard drive for my computer since the one i had couldn't hold all my **** and music comfortably (it was a 40gig and now i have an 80 gig).

So i used my windows CD to partition the new drive and install windows on it. Then i used Norton ghost to copy my old drive to the new drive. Now the old drive is your standard IDE bullshit, while my new drive is a SATA interface.

When i start up windows, i have 2 choices of window to chose from, right now, i'm booted up on the new drive, (confirmed by deleting files off the desktop and watching the drive capacity change), however when i unplug the old drive and try to boot up the pc, it say operating system not found.

Any idea wtf that's about? There's obviously an OS on the drive if it enables me to select it, and then modify things on the drive. I tried changing the boot settings in the BIOS and didn't have any luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

**** for your help, god i love charmaine star....

boost-addict

i used to have 2x256 and 1x 512 so i would guess its ok, but there is diference in memory( speed) you cant mix that...

Smith-02

corsair.com i think, itll tell you how big you can upgrade.

also you CAN mix and match, usually, you're just limited to the slower of the two sticks

bitchasscracker

get a t1000

JDMFantasy2K

yeah i'm keeping the speed the same i believe it's 333mhz? just wanted to know if you could mix and match capacity

Smith-02

capacity is usually easier to mix than speed, as long as your larger (ie 512 and 256) is in slot 1, with the smaller in slot two, it won't view both slots as 256

JDMFantasy2K

made some changes to this post, see top

Smith-02

did you jumper your harddrives to select master/slave, or how are you working them

JDMFantasy2K

yeah i had to do that to get it to start up initially, so have the IDE hard drive set up as master right now, then i had disconnected the IDE drive, and only had the sata drive connected, went into the bios and made sure SATA was enabled and ----, and i read the top of the drive and it says SATA doesn't require jumpers to select master and slave, so i'm pretty ------ stumped. So right now i'm on HD 2, with HD1 set as primary, but it won't let me boot from HD2 with HD1 unplugged... grr. I need to install a service connector on this ------ thing so i can just watch the light flash like my car does