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Need help with a Gateway

  • 29-07-2002 6:23pm
    #1
    Vicky_Vixen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭


    Can anyone help?

    I have an old Gateway (actually an ALR 7200 server) that I acquired second hand. It works as well as a Pentium II with 64Mbyte of RAM can work. I tried to revitalise it with some new RAM. I bought a 128Mbyte DIMM and it hangs the machine.

    I boot up - the machine recognises the extra memory but as soon as it gets to launching windows (I've tried with 95, NT 4 and Win 2000) I get a memory error and the thing hangs.

    Then when I soft boot - press the reset button - it only recognises the 64Mbyte that was originally in the machine and will only launch windows in safe mode.

    I even upgraded the BIOS - very brave - but no joy.

    There's nothing wrong with the memory. I stuck it into a Dell at work and there was no problem at all. I bought it off a web site that other people had recommended to me but I've been faffing around with BIOS es etc for so long I've lost the receipt.

    What am I doing wrong? Apart from tolerating a heap of Gateway junk in my living room.


Comments

  • #2
    Kali
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,601 ✭✭✭Kali


    that machine only takes ECC ram..
    basically a special type of RAM that performs error checking and is common in server machines... it will be slightly more expensive than normal memory though.


  • #3
    Mr. Fancypants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,894 ✭✭✭Mr. Fancypants


    Did you try putting the 128MB stick in by itself into the Gateway?
    You may need to have pairs of RAM (128 with 128)


  • #4
    Vicky_Vixen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭Vicky_Vixen


    Originally posted by mbroaders
    Did you try putting the 128MB stick in by itself into the Gateway?

    Yes. No joy.


  • #5
    Vicky_Vixen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭Vicky_Vixen


    Originally posted by Kali
    that machine only takes ECC ram..

    Hmm. I don't recall seeing that in the literature. But I'll investigate that option. Thanks.


  • #6
    Gerry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,484 ✭✭✭Gerry


    The machine will do perfectly well as a home file/mp3/email server with 64 megs of ram. Just throw some form of linux on it. Its not worth buying ecc ram for it so you can use it as a desktop machine, unless you can find ecc ram cheap second hand or something.


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  • #7
    Kali
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,601 ✭✭✭Kali


    Originally posted by Vicky_Vixen


    Hmm. I don't recall seeing that in the literature. But I'll investigate that option. Thanks.

    http://www.micromax.com/computers/gateway/brochures/alr7000.pdf


  • #8
    spongebob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,143 ✭✭✭spongebob


    Even if you don't buy from them (and I would recommend them to anyone) Crucial have a great memory selector/matcher at

    http://www.crucial.com/uk

    select make and model of pc from a huge list and the memory spec appears

    other than pins and speed the other key features appear on the right. It also tells you the number of banks and max memory.

    ECC
    Registered or not
    CL 2 2.5 or 3 (to do with the clock cycle actions)

    M


  • #9
    Vicky_Vixen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭Vicky_Vixen


    Thanks to everyone for all the help.

    What a nice site!


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