Installing RAM.

Yoda9864 · 08-04-2003, 03:19 AM

You can't put an SD stick into a DDR slot and visa versa because their is a little notch on both kinds of sticks (the notches are in different places on each stick). So even if you tried to put it in the wrong type of slot, you can't.

There are motherboards with both types of slots. You can't use them simulatneously. The DDR will fry, or hte SD will?...no the DDR will fry. I had a computer illiterate friend do that, dumb a-hole. He paid for his mistake. You can have either-or, but not both.

Null · 08-04-2003, 03:27 AM

strange old chinese man at computer store had them running both at same time. thats what im talkin bout. now its silly and pointless, but it CAN be done.

what ends up happening is the motherboard ends up running both types of ram at the lowest speed, so it pretends the DDR is SD in a way.

which as i said is pointless and there are VERY few mobos that will do it. actually im wondering if the even make them anymore cuz i havnt heard about them in a long time. But it is possible to run them both at the same time on the same mobo.

and yes the notches are in slightly different spots on each diff type.

Jonbo298 · 08-04-2003, 03:39 AM

Damn chinese people, always with the weird electronics

wait, I thought the us had that title

Jason1 · 08-04-2003, 12:17 PM

My old RAM was PC100 I believe, and my new stuff is DDR I think. So that rules that question out. But as for the other question...you think I just dont have them in perfectly most likley? They're probably kinda like old NES cartridges...they gotta be in perfect to work...I'll keep trying, thanks.

EDIT: OH, and the RAM does have those notches and its impossible to put it in backwards, I tried.