🚀 go-pugleaf

Not normally, it sounds like you inserted it properly and should have
worked.  A DIMM won't go in backwards without breaking something due to its
off centre notch.

Some extreme thoughts are:

1.    The DIMM sockets are a little dodgy and your insertion technique
(maybe the side you end up pushing in first etc) causes the socket to fail,
where as your supplier inserted it differently and snatched it.

2.    Did he use the same DIMM socket as you were?  If not the socket you
were using could be dodgy and the one he used is fine.  Most boards now can
take DIMMs in pretty much any order, but maybe your board with that RAM
would only work by the book with it starting in the first bank

3.    Did he do it in front of you?  If not perhaps to save face he swapped
it for a different module while in the "back room".

4.    Pushing too hard? who knows, maybe you had to be a bit more gentle
with your boards sockets, it doesn't take too much force to put them in.

Great to hear the problem is resolved anyway.  Make an omelette.

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"Barry Ward" <baz@powerup.com.au> wrote in message news:3a541536@grissom...
> I have had 2 very embarassing moments at my local computer parts supplier
> recently.
>
> I bought all the bits necessary for a Celeron 700 AOPEN AX3S based machine
> with 128 meg PC133 RAM.
> Installed everything fine -- but couldn't get the RAM to work. Took the
RAM
> back and got some more -- couldn't get it to work.
>
> Took the RAM into the supplier and he installed it into his machine and it
> worked perfectly. I crept out of his office with a lot of egg on my face.
> Installed it back in my machine -- still it doesn't work!  Take the
machine
> and all into his shop this time -- he pulls the RAM out and reinstalls it
.
> WORKS PERFECTLY!! --Lots more egg on my face!!
>
> So what the hell am I doing wrong. I had pushed the RAM into the DIMM
> sockets as hard as I could and the end clips were absolutely in place -
> completely clicked into the notches in the dimm ends.
>
> Is there a trick here somewhere?
>
> Thanks
>
> Barry
>
>