Feedback on New PC Specs

Timothy Miller · 01-03-2017, 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by FredJones

First of all, Timothy, this may indeed have saved my PC. Firefox still uses a lot of RAM of course, but the machine seems to work a lot better now that I upgraded the BIOS. I owe you a beer.

Thank you!!!

That is really interesting. I had no idea.

I tried to upgrade the RAM a year ago but they said my Intel DH55PJ can't take any more. Or that you can't buy what it needs. I forget exactly, but the guys at the store (who I trust somewhat) said I can't get more. Or perhaps I am remembering wrong and it was that the RAM I got somewhere else didn't match, or maybe I tried to upgrade the CPU and I couldn't. I see online now that I could switch out my two 2Gs for two 4Gs and have 8.

Can someone clarify if I am really stupid or if I can actually just do that? I don't know why I didn't do it before it that's right. I see someone else wrote that this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...33&ignorebbr=1 (out of stock) item would work for me

Also buying a new SSD is very interesting--that makes a lot of sense.

Thank you.

Yeah, it's always good to keep the bios updated. Most of the time it's just security updates, but once in a while it's performance/stability updates.

FredJones · 01-04-2017, 07:27 AM

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Maximum Capacity: 16 GB

Hmm. Here http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/...000006049.html it says

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System memory features
The board has two DIMM sockets and supports the following memory features:

Two independent memory channels with interleaved mode support
Support for non-ECC, unbuffered, single-sided or double-sided DIMMs with x8 organization
8 GB maximum total system memory (with 2 Gb memory technology)
Minimum total system memory: 1 GB using a 1 Gb x8 module
Serial presence detect
DDR3 1333 MHz and DDR3 1066 MHz SDRAM DIMMs

I thought maybe this BIOS update would magically fix my RAM channel A so I tried and no luck. So I checked it out and find a tiny piece of metal sitting there. I removed it and now can see that two of the metal connectors on the inner wall of the slot are missing (#2 and #5). I figured it has so many, maybe it can get by without those two, but no luck--when I power on with my one RAM chip in Channel A, it won't boot up--just 3 beeps and nothing more.