Ram Question

[Steve Askew]

I have a friends PC company PC here & it was fitted with 2x 256 MB DDR PC2100 Ram,It was running as Dual channel as both sticks were in the same colour slots.
Problem is that one stick is faulty & I was wondering if I replace the faulty stick with a different brand & place it in the oposite colour slot will it run ok? I realise to run dual channel you must have 2 identical ram sticks.
The PC is not used for gaming

Cheers Steve

[drcspy]

I very much doubt that any pc company puter would run the ram 'dual channel'

[kiki]

If one is faulty, ask if you can RMA both because you paid for dual channel, and if they have to return one stick, then it won't be Dual Channel anymore.

[Steve Askew]

> I very much doubt that any pc company puter would run
> the ram 'dual channel'

I think you are right :-)

I have just identfied the mobo as a k7s5a & went to mobo site & found the following

MEMORY

2 DDR DIMM sockets and 2 DIMM sockets support (can not be used simultaneously)
Two 184-pin DDR SDRAM (DDR200, DDR266) or
Two 168-pin 3.3V SDRAM (PC100, PC133)
Maximum: 1.0GB (DDR or SDRAM)

As I couldn't see the sdram slots because of cable clutter I assumed it was dual channel :-(

Thanks Steve