Technology Problem with ram

[Shahin]

OK so I got my hands on 256 additional MB's of Ram to add to the 128 that came with my laptop (HP omnibook XE3). The problem I have is, there are 2 slots for memory, however, when i insert the 256 mb ram it will get detected the first time i turn on my computer but after i reboot it once again says that i only have 128 mb. I tried switching the ram cards around for a bit and i noticed that the card i insert in the primary slot will always get detected however if i only put ram in the secondary slot it will be detected. Is there no way to get them to work simulatenously?

 

[Duke]

They should work simultenaeously. Both RAM cards are compatible with each other and the rest of the computer?

 

[Shahin]

Yeah I think so I'm no computer whiz but I was told that they would work with this model and as I said they did work simulatneously until I restart my computer, I repeated and the same thing happened. Strange.

 

[2Pax]

Are they both the same MHz speed?

 

[Shahin]

Are they both the same MHz speed?

Yeah I'm prettyu sure they're both at 133 MHz.
Update on the problem, I switched the sticks around so the 256 MB is in the primary slot and now they both get detected about every other time, when both doesn't get detected I only have 256 MB of memory.

 

[Shahin]

bump i really need some help

 

[V@PoR]

go to circuit city and they will help u lol.. but maby if your friends have a laptop try it on theres and see if it has the same prob