CrisPDuk

About 3 years ago Mrs D & myself bought an Advent 3203 PC from PC World, which we have now come to upgrade. Ihave managed to install a new hard-drive & CD writer with no problems at all, but cannot get the motherboard to accept any form of additional/alternative RAM card. I have twice phoned PC World's helpline, the first time I was told that I need to install a pair of RAM cards by to the same spec, nothing doing. The second time I was told that I will probably have to seek out some older 2nd hand cards as the motherboard is probably not compatible with newer cards.
After I calmed down, I did inform the muppet on the other end of the line that I had specifically asked the sales goon at the time we bought the PC if I would be able to put additional RAM into it & he said certainly, any PC 133 RAM card will go in.

Now before anybody says that I should have avoided PC World like the plague, yes, I know that now but not everybody has 20:20 foresight. My problem is that I need additional memory but do not want to go to the expense/aggravation of replacing my motherboard.

So has anybody got any 2-3yr old 128Mb or 256Mb sticks knocking about that would be compatible with a Hyundai PC133U-333-542-Z 64Mb Stick?

lightning101

www.aria.co.uk - they have both 128mb and 256mb of ram for £17.63 and £29.38 respectively and you can get royal mail delivery to save you courier charges.

lightning101

this might help


CPUAMD Athlon 1.0GHzMotherboardGA-71XEMemory64 MB PC133 SDRAMHard Drive30 GB Maxtor 33073H3 UDMA66CD Drive4x 4x 24x Toshiba combi SD-R1002 DVD/CD-R/RWVideo CardnVidia Riva TNT2 M64 32MBSound CardCreative SoundBlaster CT4810 PCISpeakersCreative Labs SBS35ModemLucent 56K V.90 Winmodem

• BIOS : 2Mbit Flash RAM AMI BIOS
• Chipset:
  • AMD® 751 (Irongate) North Bridge
  • AMD® 756 (Viper) South Bridge
  • Winbond W83977 I/O set
  • Winbond W83782 health chip
• Form Factor: ATX , 4 layer PCB (30.5*20.8cm)
• I / O:
  • 2 x Ultra DMA 33/ 66 Bus Master IDE ports on board
  • 1 x FDD, 2 x COM, 1 x LPT, PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse onboard
  • 2 x USB ports on board
  • 2 x USB ports by cable (cable optional)
  • IrDA TX / RX Header (optional)
• Memory:
  • 16MB to 768MB DRAM size
  • 3 x 3.3V DIMM sockets
  • Supports 64/128/256 MB SDRAM DIMM module
  • Supports ECC type DIMM module (72bits)
• Power:
  • ATX power connector
  • Power-on by K/B, PS/2 Mouse, LAN, RTC, Modem & Switch
  • Power-off by Windows ® 95/98 Shut down & Switch
  • AC Recovery ON/OFF control
  • 3 Level ACPI LED Support
  • Stop CPU Fan during entering suspend mode
• Processor: Slot A for AMD® -K7 Athlon 200MHz FSB processors 90*/95*/100/105*/110*/115* MHz FSB. Auto detect CPU voltage
• Slots:
  • 1 x AGP slot supports 2X mode
  • 5 x PCI slots support 33MHz & PCI 2.2 compliant
  • 2 x ISA slots

HankScorpio

Crucial will tell you exactly the kind you need:
http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/list...3203&submit=Go

CrisPDuk

Cheers, chaps, I have just placed my order. Just need to wait now t osee if it works


BTW Lightning101, where did you find that info, I must e-mail it to PC W**kers, the muppets I spoke to kept asking me to look inside to tell THEM what spec it was

CrisPDuk

The chips arrived in the post about haqlf an hour ago. I have installed them & am now running with the full complement of 576Mb of RAM I is a happy camper again now