My neigbor has a dell inspiron 560 and it came with 3 gb installed (4 dimm slots). He's not savvy enough on computers and was complaining it to be slow..I looked up the memory type and frequency and asked him to get an upgrade... Made 2 mistakes.. no.1, wasn't aware that we can go only upto 2 gb per dimm slot... ... no.2 mistake was not making sure the frequency of the stick that he got... The neighbor ordered a 4gb stick and also at 1333 whereas the existing ones where 1066.. Both says PC10600u and the pin types matched..
Anyway, i went ahead and put in the new stick he got and it won't recognize.. i tried a couple of times and then gave up and just left the old sticks and started the pc and it tried to boot but went it to start up repair due to hard ware changes and then kept rebooting.. after a while, the pc completely stopped booting up... I was getting 2 beeps on the post.. Looked it up on the internet and many were pointing to memory problem.. try to reseat the memory, put new sticks etc.. I tried out everything and nothing seemed to work.. I removed the motherboard completely, dusted it off and then put it back again.. still it doesn't work.. Finally i ordered a mother board diagnose card... It's showing an error of D1.. The bios is AMI and from what I see for d1, its a parity error on the first 64k.... IS there any thing I could do to fix this without having to change the mobo ? I'm going to do that as a last thing, but is there anything i could check on the dimm slots? I tried the memory sticks on a different machine and they work fine.... So the memory is perfectly ok... I tried changing video cards, power supply etc.. Regardless of what I do, I get the D1 code. I've cleared cmos, removed the battery etc...
Dell inspiron 560
ECS- G43t-d1m motherboard
Appreciate any input on this..
Anyway, i went ahead and put in the new stick he got and it won't recognize.. i tried a couple of times and then gave up and just left the old sticks and started the pc and it tried to boot but went it to start up repair due to hard ware changes and then kept rebooting.. after a while, the pc completely stopped booting up... I was getting 2 beeps on the post.. Looked it up on the internet and many were pointing to memory problem.. try to reseat the memory, put new sticks etc.. I tried out everything and nothing seemed to work.. I removed the motherboard completely, dusted it off and then put it back again.. still it doesn't work.. Finally i ordered a mother board diagnose card... It's showing an error of D1.. The bios is AMI and from what I see for d1, its a parity error on the first 64k.... IS there any thing I could do to fix this without having to change the mobo ? I'm going to do that as a last thing, but is there anything i could check on the dimm slots? I tried the memory sticks on a different machine and they work fine.... So the memory is perfectly ok... I tried changing video cards, power supply etc.. Regardless of what I do, I get the D1 code. I've cleared cmos, removed the battery etc...
Dell inspiron 560
ECS- G43t-d1m motherboard
Appreciate any input on this..
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