issue with ram...

[mattkins99]

so I picked an x60 up today for my girlfriend. It came with 1gb of ram and because of a mistake I made about a week earlier when ordering ram for my Dell Mini 9 I had an extra 2gb PC2-5300 module laying around. So, I took the two 512mb sticks out and put the 2gb stick in. Well, it wouldn't boot.... I can't find anything saying this shouldn't work.... I also tried to do a BIOS update after this, but I found out it's already on the latest bios version.

Any idea?

[rkawakami]

Welcome to the forum!

As far as I can tell, the Dell Mini 9 also takes DDR2 PC2-5300 modules, so have you tried the module that wouldn't boot inside the X60 in the Dell? If it doesn't work there either, then I'd say you have yourself a bad module. If it does work inside the Dell, then there could be something strange with the module's SPD information or it could simply be a case of a bad contact. And when you say that the X60 won't boot, does it also give off any error beeps?

[adrianaitken]

Try it with one of the 512Meg RAM chips that you had installed earlier. I think that it's also picky about which slot a single module goes into (might have been a different laptop I'm thinking about though).

[mattkins99]

Welcome to the forum!

As far as I can tell, the Dell Mini 9 also takes DDR2 PC2-5300 modules, so have you tried the module that wouldn't boot inside the X60 in the Dell? If it doesn't work there either, then I'd say you have yourself a bad module. If it does work inside the Dell, then there could be something strange with the module's SPD information or it could simply be a case of a bad contact. And when you say that the X60 won't boot, does it also give off any error beeps?

Yes, I did try it in the Mini 9 before I realized I should be using 6400.... I didn't realize the 5300 should work there at the time. I guess it is bad ram... odd though, it was NIB when I bought it.

Thanks for the help though

[mattkins99]

Try it with one of the 512Meg RAM chips that you had installed earlier. I think that it's also picky about which slot a single module goes into (might have been a different laptop I'm thinking about though).

I tried all combinations.