Just so's I got's it right......

[C.C.]

Could someone please explain proprietary components to me. I'm still relativly new the PC building world and just want to have my facts straight. Thanks. C.C.

[Mntsnow]

C.C,

proprietary parts means that if you are running for instance a XZY system and they are using proprietary parts you will have to buy the replacement/upgrade parts from XYZ company.

Mntsnow

[C.C.]

That's what I thought. I have 2 systems, one that I built and an HP. I've been completly happy with the Pavilion, great computer. But I realized that I could build my own much cheaper so from now on that's the route I'll go, but this is a different story. I bought the Pavilion(6356) from Comp-Usa almost a year ago. I went back to check on some memory for it a few months ago and they said they didn't have nor could they get. It was proprietary and that I could only get it from HP. I said what a crock and went on about my business, never buying, or even checking on ram from HP, simply becuase I knew what the price would be. But the other day I got curious. I had an extra stick of 32 meg of pc 100(the system is only runs at 66 mghz, but I bought the memory for another system) and decided I would try it. Worked fine buy itself and when combined with one of the other sticks. Looks like I'm going to get to do that memory upgrade after all...no thanks to Chump-Usa. Thanks. C.C.

[xtant]

HP's can use standard memory, but sometimes their memory does not work with other brand memory. We use hp's exclusively here, and have found that about half the time, when we put in kingston memory, it won't work unless the HP memory is taken out.
PB used proprietary memory and I didn't know it, so I bought some pny for him. I ended up using some wooden shims to hold it in place.