HP Vectra Memory Issues

[NtelStomper]

At my work we use the HP Vectra series of PC's for our clients. Because of low budgets old PC's tend to hang around on the network longer than they should, so we have a lot of the VL5 (original Pentium) series still floating around. I'm looking for anyone who might have concrete info regarding something I've firmly believed in for years now but have seen no official info about on HP's web site:

HP VL5's do not like PNY, Kingston, or any other brand for that matter, memory installed if the original HP RAM is still in the system.

Can anyone back me up on that?

My theory goes even further. HP had told someone here a way back to enable the memory hole in the BIOS for compatibility. First off I've never had to do that on any other system EVER. 2nd, I noticed that when you do that you can get an exclamation mark in Device Manager for System Board Extensions for PNP BIOS. I've run into a lot of PC's with this scenerio that Windows thought had "bad" sectors on the hard drive. But after low-leveling the drive and re-running the diagnostics the drives seemed fine. Could this memory hole be causing Windows to false report bad sectors? Could I be crazy? Can the Sixers beat the Lakers?

Help on any of this would be much appreciated.

Thanks

 

[gunthnp]

1st off sixer beat the lakers never (I'm in socal so)but on the memory hp say that they don't like other memory but when you do a warranty reapir on a vectra for hp more then once they had send out samsong memory and I have been told to just add kingston by there people. with the hp memory still in.


So long and thanks for all the fish.

 

[safraser]

I have no idea about your memory problems but
Be careful thinking that a low level format will fix bad sectors on a hdd, I've seen it sometimes hide bad sectors
while not fixing them - If you get bad sectors it best to mark them so the os won't use them or replace the disk