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Dell Dimension XPS D333 - memory problem

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From: nospam
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 00:00
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A friend has a Dell XPS D333 Pentium II system with 128mb Ram (2 x
64mb)

He wanted to increase this.  The motherboard has 3 dimm slots and the
manual states it can take up to 384mb.  As Dell have already filled
two of the slots, he wanted to fill the third with a 128mb dimm.

When this was done, on boot up evrything was fine till Win 95 started
abd said there was an error with the display settings.  Basically, it
would not accept anything but basic VGA.

While accepting there may have been some problem with the new memory,
this was swopped for another  - same result.  However, take out the 2
x 64, put in the 2 x 128mb - same result.  Tried all other
permutations and no way would this machine work with more than 128mb
ram.  With any permutation of 128, it worked perfectly.

Anyone any similar experiences or am I missing something ?

Thanks for any pointers
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