"Jonathan" wrote in message
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On 15 Jun, 20:36, John Jordan wrote:

Apparently the motherboard in that PC has the Intel 865PE chipset. These
only support chip densities up to 512mbit, so 8-chip 1GB sticks will not
work. Those cheap 16-chip "high density" sticks they sell on eBay won't
work either, but for a different reason.

Branded 16-chip 1GB sticks should work fine, but these will be more
expensive.

Ah - now that's a good answer, just not one I wanted to hear! OK - how
do I find out whether a stick has 8 or 16 chips?
All the crucial sticks say 128x64, so if each chip is 128Mb, then
there can only be 1024Mb.

I found the Crucial Scanner thing
http://www.crucial.com/uk/systemscanner/index.asp
but it only wanted to recommend Ballistix sticks, or kits with parts
that ebuyer didn't have.
Bearing in mind the memory is going to have to go back to ebuyer, can
you please let me know what to search on?
I used the memory finder tool at
http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/list...x?model=MD8083
which recommended a CT434183 stick, but ebuyer don't have that part.

I may be oversimplifying things here, but can't you just buy the Crucial
stuff?