embarressing question

Bolerus · 1 Dec 2007 at 21:52

hi all

I bought a couple of sticks of mem from the MM

finaly got around to putting them in a machine today and.

well they dont fit, the slots in the middle(ish lol) are about half a cm out of alignment

they are

Samsung 256Mb PC2-3200 M378T3354BGO-CCCDS

what have I bought here? obviously isnt standard memmory

am i missing somethign obvious?

cheers

badbob · 1 Dec 2007 at 21:53

If it's the right memory try flipping 180 degrees.

daven1986 · 1 Dec 2007 at 21:59

lol as above, the slots aren't in the middle they are slightly offset. flip them round.

RaiderX · 1 Dec 2007 at 21:59

the memory you have bought is DDR2 PC2-3200, you probably need PC1-3200 DDR1, DDR2 wont fit in a DDR1 slot

badbob · 1 Dec 2007 at 22:01

RaiderX said:
the memory you have bought is DDR2 PC2-3200, you probably need PC1-3200 DDR1, DDR2 wont fit in a DDR1 slot

How do you know that? The OP didn't mention what motherboard he has.

RaiderX · 1 Dec 2007 at 22:05

PC3200 comes in DDR1 and 2, most people buy 3200 for DDR1 systems, it would explain y the small notch aint lining up

badbob · 1 Dec 2007 at 22:07

Except of course he could be trying to fit it the wrong way round, a reason why the notch isn't matching up.

ShiWarrior · 1 Dec 2007 at 22:07

what motherboard do u have? then we can check that u have the right TYPE of RAM

Bolerus · 1 Dec 2007 at 22:43

no i arnt trying to fit it the wrong way

my first thought was that it is ddr2 but i thought 4200 was the smallest ddr2
/Doh

and just for info. if you flip the memmory around (as if it was lined up wrong side) it is a damn site more than half a cm out of line

so now i have some ddr2 memmory with no use /sigh (i have 4 gig ddr2 in my machine)_

and yeah its a DDR1 motherbaord (just stuck some ddr1 out of my downloading machine to get it going)

ShiWarrior · 1 Dec 2007 at 22:57

your answered your own question in the end

can we be of any more service?

Bolerus · 1 Dec 2007 at 23:46

well not unless any body has some ddr1 they woudl like to swap for a couple of 256 DDr 2 sticks

Raider X answered the question i think, or rather confirmed what i was thinking, but thought to be impossible (due ot the speed)