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By abarbarian · Posted
If the mobo has four ram slots and you are only installing two sticks of ram the manual should tell you which slots to populate first. Worth checking up on as some mobos are funny about ram installs. 😎 -
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It means that the colored pair is a dual channel set and that you should install RAM as a pair to take advantage of it. Basically match the colors if you are only use two slots. -
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Thanks, Guys- At this point, much of what you're saying makes intuitive sense. No, I don't have all that much emotional investment in the currently installed Mint 22 OS. Just a good chunk of my time, banging my head against Secure Boot, which I had kinda sorta heard about already. So I didn't really expect it would be all that smooth an operation. The key stumbling block was the tower didn't come with the user manual- thus a lot of unnecessary fumbling to get at the BIOS. I finally found it based on a hint from the former owner ("maybe F6?") but I really had to resort to all kinds of variations, repetitively. I've lost nothing really, so far as whatever Linux OS and personal files were on the 120GB SSD. I had already migrated those contents to a bigger SSD, which lives on in one of my antique Dell workstations. I'll play with this as is for a few days, even adding stuff, but am not averse to starting over. I haven't taken time to go back to the original HDD to see if I have in any way hosed Win 10. (through my BIOS tinkering) I did receive an "Emergency boot disk- Newest version- compatible with all versions of Windows"- along with the tower. And some speakers.🤭 Compared to my old Dell boxes, which are nicely laid out with everything very accessible, this 'new' HP tower is a rats nest. Looks like I would have to remove the metal shroud around the big video card to have enough hand room to even plug a 2nd SATA cable into the mobo. And that is held captive by part of the wiring harness. But cutting a tywrap or two and unplugging the video connector should make room enough to pull that out. Anyway, free is a very nice price! And it comes with a higher CPU speed and double the RAM of my Dells, maxed out at 8GB. Also a much more powerful video card. Former owner mentioned it might be expandable to 32GB RAM. Without reading the manual, I'm not yet sure of that. I do see 4 slots in two colors. But sometimes each color accommodates a slightly different style RAM. So TBD... I did download 'something' from the HP site. I'll have to go over it and see what's in there. Heading straight for Specifications. So now I'll just play, erercise it online with my usual emailing and web surfing, usually with FF bloated with dozens of open tabs- LOL! Very helpful comments above. I'll have to fully digest all that info. Then I can tell better if a redo would be the better path. Clutter -
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