Memory upgrade fails

My laptop Presario R3200 3 year old came with 256 MB of RAM.  A couple of years, I've added another chip of RAM of 256 MB without problem.  The low price of RAM these days, I decided to upgrade to a full 2 GB.

I bought two 1 GB chips from a reliable company, installed the new circuits and booted the laptop.  The fan came, the disk light flashed twice and nothing else happened.  I spent about an hour of troubleshooting on mine, called the seller of the chip and talked with their tech support, then tried their suggestions.  Nada.  Still called the supplier of chips and they suggested that maybe my BIOS is outdated.  I put back the original of the RAM in the system rebooted normally and is here to see what I could find on the upgrades to the BIOS.

First of all, I was wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience with a R3000 notebook PC series.  If so, do you have the operation of RAM and how did you do?

Thank you, John Kinney

Thanks for the comments.

Finally, I'm in conversation with a HP technician and went through different options.  The memory I bought is the correct type, however, after checking the laptop computer real product only. It seems that the laptop is configured only to recognize the 1 GB of RAM.  There is a BIOS upgrade, but the techie said that would probably not increase the limitation of memory.  It has been suggested that I have let a 256 MB chip in the keyboard slot and put one of the 1 GB chip in the second slot.  I tried and it didn't work until I put the * other * 256 MB Chip under the keyboard and added a chip of 1 GB in the second slot.  The laptop then started normally and seems to recognize 1.25 GB of RAM.  Apparently, there was a problem any with one of the chips original 256 MB, which was probably what caused all the mishaps and slow behaviorto begin with.

Immeduately after the addition of the 1 GB chip, I met a few spontaneous reboots and messages half a dozen "your computer has recovered from a serious error".  Those who have not reoffended.  The laptop is now a little bit faster than it was before, and otherwise seems to work normally.

Best regards, John Kinney

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