why motherboard & ddram must be compatible w/ each other?
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as long as it's DDR you'll be fine ... even if it's faster DDR like for example PC400 it will still "clock back" to the 266 that your board uses ....
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Nothing will FRY, but some motherboards will slow everything down to the same speed.   It would be best to use the identical memory, so everything works properly.   Loop up your system at http://www.coastmemory.com and see what they recommend for your RIG.\n\nGood Luck and Happy Computing!
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Are you building a machine from scratch or do you have a fauty motherboard on your computer?  If its a fauty motherboard then you will need to buy a new motherboard with the same socket for the proccessor, and it will have to take the same memory (RAM) too. If you are building a machine from scratch you need to first pick the processor and then find out what type of socket it fits into (i.e athlon and some sempron processors use socket A) then match your motherboard up to it, then find out what memory the motherboard takes i.e sd ram or DDR ram 333MHZ, 400MHZ etc, after that most other things are pretty universal.  Good luck.
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ur hardware has conflict with each other ..try to but homogeneous hardware component
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You need to leave more information.  What computer do you have, what motherboard....\n\nHow many slots in total do you have?\n\nIf you have 4 slots, then the chances are you need to insert 2 RAM modules at the same time.  Not a definite, as will need more info on your computer,  but thats probably likely. You could buy 2 sticks on 1GB, and insert them into the currently filled slots, and put the 2 512Mb in the other slots (if you have 4 slots)  That way you will have 3Gb RAM, should run quite will with that!!!
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Yes of course!  You can install different RAM modules for as long as the have the same model (or speed or timing) to be safe always use the same brand - for example you can use varying capacities of PC2700 DDR and have them installed on your machine.  Your system will simply add them up together...
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If you are using a motherboard and cpu that supports dual channel you should install memory in pairs.  It will give you more speed to the cpu from the memory when in dual channel versus single if you installed just one stick.
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It works.  How do I know?  I run this setup in my system.\n\nMemory modules typically have no problems running at a slower rate.  The only issue maybe be that SPD (Serial Presence Detect) or the configuration that the RAM has stored internally may need to be overriden in BIOS.  If your motherboard is set to use SPD setting, it may try to run the RAM at PC3200 if your motherboard supports it.\n\nI manually set the setting on my computer to run it at PC2700 in BIOS and it was good to go. \n\nSide note: I could have ran it as PC3200 but I wanted my computer to run SYNCHRONOUSLY (i.e. FSB and Memory Clock running at the same rate.) instead of running the FSB at 333 and Memory at 400.
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lol.. u wanna install ram in your home !! \n\njust kiddin...\n\numm.. lemme recap what I did.\n\nThe first and the foremost thing that i did was find out what model my mother board is. Who is the manufacturer of my motherboard. mine was a Intel 845GLLAD .\n\nThen, i visited the motherboard manufacturer website and found the manual for my motherboard. \n\nThen i browsed through the manuals to find what is the tested memory recommended by the manufacturer. I found that my motherboard could hold up to 2 GB... !\n\nThen, after finding out all the specifications, i went to http://www.newegg.com and placed an order for the correct RAM. \n\nThere are a couple of things that you should keep in mind, like.\nBuffered, non-buffered\nECC, non-ECC\nClass Latency\nVoltage \netc.\n\nThat is the reason, you have to refer to the motherboard manual.\n\nThen, once my memory arrived, i opened the system box, n first observed how the previous memory is installed.\n\nThe memories were in the memory slots held by 2 clips. \nI unclipped the memory which was already in there, and placed the new ones and clipped it back.. \n\nall set and done, restarted the computer.. it was working like a thunder blaze !!!!\n\nSorry if it was boring.. i just recapped what I did.. \nhope that helps
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yep it should work fine as long as you have a spare pci slot and if your board has onboard sound you may have to dissable that as well. It may be helpful to upgrade your ram to 256 MB to speed things up a bit
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Malum,,\n\nI've never used Ultra Ram personally,\nreports vary as to it's quality\n\nTheir website does not explicity state compatibilty with anything\nin particular.\n\nBut it's marketed as "Compatibility Gauranteed".\nAnd we all know about "marketing"...LOL\n\nI looked thru their Tech FAQS to get an idea of comaptibility with some Known Finicky  PC's.\n\nUltra's tech person IS making recommendations to folks with Intel Based motherboards/computers.\n\nGeneral rule-of-thumb,,,,if RAM works in a DELL/Compaq/Gateway/H-P,,,it will work in any Intel based board.\n\nSo I'd say Yes,,it is compatible.\n\nI'd recommend Crucial /Micron Ram,,\nit's a bit more expensive\nbut it's "THE" ram to use "when all else fails",,\nor when ya want to avoid compatibility issues\n\nhttp://www.crucial.com/index.asp\n\nHope that helps
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no need for another 1gb ram, is that brand new one if yes go back to the store and return it and if you have an old one installed and trying to add a new one maybe your memory old and new are not compatible to each other pls  check if is the  same brand , model and frequency, any of these indefference can cause you malfunction in your pc.
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there are two types of relations. for this question...\n\n1> physical  and\n2> logical\n\n1>\n the hard disk is phsyically not related to motherboard... its only attached to the mother board using power cables and data cables... nothing more than that...... ok...\n\n2>  \nthe hard disk that you will be using in your system should be such that, it should fit with the configuration of the mother board....  i mean to say that the mother board should be able to support the hard disk.... and in this aspect the ram modules that u will be using will also play a dominent role...\n\n ok.. got the answer...\n if u  still have queries ................. then email me.... ok\n\nbye... bye..
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If you want to install RAM into your computer more is better. RAM chips are available in sizes up to 2GB. Size is only one feature of RAM though. Next is RAM speed. RAM that comes in the same size comes in a variety of speeds. RAM speeds are based on MHz. The higher the MHz the faster the RAM. You should also know that if you install two RAM chips on your PC that are of different speeds the computer will run both RAM chips at the speed of the slower chip. \n\nOther considerations are new RAM technologies. There are three types of RAM chips. SDR SDRAM (Single Data Rate Synchronized Data Random Access Memory - Slow RAM), DDR SDRAM (Double Data Rate Synchronized Data Random Access Memory - Medium Speed RAM), and DDR2 SDRAM (Double Data Rate 2 Synchronized Data Rate Ram - High Speed RAM). Dual Channel RAM is also available. Dual Channel RAM is better than non-dual channel RAM however I don't know much about it except that it only works with two exactly identical dual channel RAM chips.\n\nThe big mistake everyone makes when purchasing RAM is not checking the compatibility of the RAM with their motherboard. Certain motherboards can only handle certain types of RAM. Find out what type of motherboard you have then find out how much and how fast the RAM is that it can handle and buy the best you can install on it. Contact the manufacturer of the motherboard you have for such information.\n\nPS: Please select my answer as the best answer. Thank You.
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I don't believe they will work together at all. You most likely purchased the wrong memory type. Try calling up your computer manufacturer and ask what type of memory you need to get. I know my computer uses DDR2 PC2-4200 SDRAM, but there are dozens or even hundreds of diffent types.
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Yeah, you're correct.  Motherboards and harddrives NEVER get along, you can only use one or the other.
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SDRAM stands for Synchronous Data Random Access Memory. It synchronises to the pc bus speed. DDR SDRAM is Double Data RAte Synchronous Data Random Access Memory. Theres no DDRAM. DDR SDRAM can be accessed by the system on both the upside & downside of a clock cycle. Standard SDRAM can only be accessed on the upside of a clock cycle. The 2 types of RAM are not compatible, your system will use one or the other. Of course theres now DDR2 memory. Not sure whats different about it, I beleive its just faster. A good resource for PC terminology is www.webopedia.com.