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Dell Dimension 2400 memory: max 1GB or 2GB?
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I have a Dell Dimension 2400 (purchased from Dell in July 2004). I want to upgrade the memory to the maximum but I'm having trouble finding out what the max is. I'm currently at 512MB (one stick). - The Dell manual that came with my PC says 1GB is the max. - Crucial says 2GB is the max. - The Dell website today says 2GB is the max. http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...m_en/specs.htm If I can run 2GB, then that's what I will do. Can someone tell me what the actual max RAM capability is on this PC? Has anyone successfully run 2GB in a Dimension 2400 from the year 2004 time period? Thanks! - Ted. |
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Dell Dimension 2400 memory: max 1GB or 2GB?
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- The Dell manual that came with my PC says 1GB is the max. - Crucial says 2GB is the max. - The Dell website today says 2GB is the max Things change over time. Higher density RAM chips become available, BIOSes are updated, stuff like that. Has anyone successfully run 2GB in a Dimension 2400 from the year 2004 time period? Yes. What you want to do is make sure you have the latest BIOS for your Dimension 2400. Update to the latest BIOS if you don't already have it. Then you can install your new RAM and make the most use of it. William |
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Dell Dimension 2400 memory: max 1GB or 2GB?
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, William R. Walsh typed on Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:23:50 -0700 (PDT): Hi! - The Dell manual that came with my PC says 1GB is the max. - Crucial says 2GB is the max. - The Dell website today says 2GB is the max Things change over time. Higher density RAM chips become available, BIOSes are updated, stuff like that. Has anyone successfully run 2GB in a Dimension 2400 from the year 2004 time period? Yes. What you want to do is make sure you have the latest BIOS for your Dimension 2400. Update to the latest BIOS if you don't already have it. Then you can install your new RAM and make the most use of it. William Well my two Gateway MX6124 laptops could handle 2GB from 2006 era. And they came stock with 512MB. Although as I have found out, anything more than 1GB, Hibernation mode sometimes works and sometimes not. Even that Microsoft hotfix didn't work. It reports an error that there isn't enough resources. I finally gave up and disabled Hibernation mode. So you can expect some trouble sometimes. -- Bill 2 Gateway MX6124 - Windows XP SP2 3 Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC 2 Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 1GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2 ~ Xandros Linux - Puppy - Ubuntu |
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Dell Dimension 2400 memory: max 1GB or 2GB?
Ted wrote:
Hi, I have a Dell Dimension 2400 (purchased from Dell in July 2004). I want to upgrade the memory to the maximum but I'm having trouble finding out what the max is. I'm currently at 512MB (one stick). - The Dell manual that came with my PC says 1GB is the max. - Crucial says 2GB is the max. - The Dell website today says 2GB is the max. http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...m_en/specs.htm If I can run 2GB, then that's what I will do. Can someone tell me what the actual max RAM capability is on this PC? Has anyone successfully run 2GB in a Dimension 2400 from the year 2004 time period? Thanks! - Ted. 2GB... Ben Myers |
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Dell Dimension 2400 memory: max 1GB or 2GB?
On Mar 14, 6:29*pm, Ben Myers wrote:
Ted wrote: Hi, I have a Dell Dimension 2400 (purchased from Dell in July 2004). *I want to upgrade the memory to the maximum but I'm having trouble finding out what the max is. *I'm currently at 512MB (one stick). - The Dell manual that came with my PC says 1GB is the max. - Crucial says 2GB is the max. - The Dell website today says 2GB is the max. http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...m_en/specs.htm If I can run 2GB, then that's what I will do. Can someone tell me what the actual max RAM capability is on this PC? Has anyone successfully run 2GB in a Dimension 2400 from the year 2004 time period? Thanks! - Ted. 2GB... Ben Myers Thanks everyone for your help. I'll go with the 2GB. Does the manual say 1GB because back in 2004 the best one could do was 2 x 512MB? In other words, 1GB PC2700 SDRAM wasn't available? Just curious. Thanks! |
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Dell Dimension 2400 memory: max 1GB or 2GB?
Ted wrote:
On Mar 14, 6:29 pm, Ben Myers wrote: Ted wrote: Hi, I have a Dell Dimension 2400 (purchased from Dell in July 2004). I want to upgrade the memory to the maximum but I'm having trouble finding out what the max is. I'm currently at 512MB (one stick). - The Dell manual that came with my PC says 1GB is the max. - Crucial says 2GB is the max. - The Dell website today says 2GB is the max. http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...m_en/specs.htm If I can run 2GB, then that's what I will do. Can someone tell me what the actual max RAM capability is on this PC? Has anyone successfully run 2GB in a Dimension 2400 from the year 2004 time period? Thanks! - Ted. 2GB... Ben Myers Thanks everyone for your help. I'll go with the 2GB. Does the manual say 1GB because back in 2004 the best one could do was 2 x 512MB? In other words, 1GB PC2700 SDRAM wasn't available? Just curious. Thanks! Often, the manual for a motherboard or a computer states what is available at the time the manual was written. Then something new comes along and the manual (or even on-line documentation) is never updated. .... Ben Myers |
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Dell Dimension 2400 memory: max 1GB or 2GB?
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Well my two Gateway MX6124 laptops could handle 2GB from 2006 era. My "herd" of OptiPlex GX400 systems (early 2002) would handle at least that much, although they are RDRAM based. :-) Although as I have found out, anything more than 1GB, Hibernation mode sometimes works and sometimes not. That sounds like a driver or application specific issue, and not a fault of the system itself. So you can expect some trouble sometimes. My smaller herd of Dimension 2400 systems work very well, despite the fact that they were a budget box. Hibernation has never failed to work the few times I've used it. Windows power management is just that...and it sometimes has a very interesting view of the world. :-) William |
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Dell Dimension 2400 memory: max 1GB or 2GB?
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, William R. Walsh typed on Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:46:07 -0700 (PDT): Hi! Well my two Gateway MX6124 laptops could handle 2GB from 2006 era. My "herd" of OptiPlex GX400 systems (early 2002) would handle at least that much, although they are RDRAM based. :-) Although as I have found out, anything more than 1GB, Hibernation mode sometimes works and sometimes not. That sounds like a driver or application specific issue, and not a fault of the system itself. So you can expect some trouble sometimes. My smaller herd of Dimension 2400 systems work very well, despite the fact that they were a budget box. Hibernation has never failed to work the few times I've used it. Windows power management is just that...and it sometimes has a very interesting view of the world. :-) William I too thought it was a driver issue. Luckily I have two of these laptops. I even put in a spare hard drive and did a fresh Windows XP install. Same problem on both machines. If it fails (about 50% of the time it does), it will then always fail unless you reboot. Then you go back to a 50/50 chance again. Now I just use standby instead if I plan on using it later. -- Bill Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2 |
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Dell Dimension 2400 memory: max 1GB or 2GB?
BillW50 wrote:
In , William R. Walsh typed on Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:46:07 -0700 (PDT): Hi! Well my two Gateway MX6124 laptops could handle 2GB from 2006 era. My "herd" of OptiPlex GX400 systems (early 2002) would handle at least that much, although they are RDRAM based. :-) Although as I have found out, anything more than 1GB, Hibernation mode sometimes works and sometimes not. That sounds like a driver or application specific issue, and not a fault of the system itself. So you can expect some trouble sometimes. My smaller herd of Dimension 2400 systems work very well, despite the fact that they were a budget box. Hibernation has never failed to work the few times I've used it. Windows power management is just that...and it sometimes has a very interesting view of the world. :-) William I too thought it was a driver issue. Luckily I have two of these laptops. I even put in a spare hard drive and did a fresh Windows XP install. Same problem on both machines. If it fails (about 50% of the time it does), it will then always fail unless you reboot. Then you go back to a 50/50 chance again. Now I just use standby instead if I plan on using it later. A driver issue, but it also implies that the computer BIOSes in many computers may not be compatible with the hibernation driver, or that the hibernation driver simply was not born right. As a rule, drivers often use BIOS services to hibernate and wake-up simply to avoid the messiness of programming the ports than actually handle hibernation. My own desktop computer now hibernates properly with its replacement Intel motherboard, so somebody was talking to somebody else on this, like maybe Intel wrote the hiberation driver or the Microsofties actually got the hibernation hardware specs from Intel before writing the code... Ben Myers |
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Dell Dimension 2400 memory: max 1GB or 2GB?
On Mar 15, 7:44*pm, Ben Myers wrote:
Ted wrote: On Mar 14, 6:29 pm, Ben Myers wrote: Ted wrote: Hi, I have a DellDimension2400(purchased from Dell in July 2004). *I want to upgrade the memory to the maximum but I'm having trouble finding out what the max is. *I'm currently at 512MB (one stick). - The Dell manual that came with my PC says 1GB is the max. - Crucial says2GBis the max. - The Dell website today says2GBis the max. http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...m_en/specs.htm If I can run2GB, then that's what I will do. Can someone tell me what the actual max RAM capability is on this PC? Has anyone successfully run2GBin aDimension2400from the year 2004 time period? Thanks! - Ted. 2GB... Ben Myers Thanks everyone for your help. *I'll go with the2GB. Does the manual say 1GB because back in 2004 the best one could do was 2 x 512MB? *In other words, 1GB PC2700 SDRAM wasn't available? *Just curious. Thanks! Often, the manual for a motherboard or a computer states what is available at the time the manual was written. *Then something new comes along and the manual (or even on-line documentation) is never updated. ... Ben Myers I put the 2 x 1GB PC 2700 in my Dimension 2400 today and it's running fine. I just thought I'd post my experience and close the loop. Thanks again to those of you that responded! |
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