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adamp15

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5. November 2005 @ 06:42

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the other day I purchased 1GB of RAM DDR(PC3200). when I tried to put it in my pc along with my 512MB DDR (PC3200) it starts up just fine until it begins loading windows, no beeps or nothing. once it gets here, it either just restarts or it loads windows but has fatal errors and errors with a bunch of other programs when loading them. I checked out to see if all the RAM was registering and it said I had 1.50GB so I know all of it was being read. I'm not sure on the exact make of my motherboard right now because I'm not at my pc but I know it's an ECS something and I built it myself so I remember that it supports up to 2GB of DDR PC3200. I will post the name of the motherboard once I get back to my pc. Can anyone please tell me what is going wrong? I tried switching the RAM around in different DIMM slots and it did nothing. just more errors. please help!

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sammorris

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5. November 2005 @ 06:50

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Hmmm, try the system without the extra RAM you added. I know that ECS motherboards are particularly known to have problems reading memory, so it may just be that you have a faulty motherboard which didn't show up before since you only used the first RAM slot. If that's the case, you have a decision to make:
Bin the board and buy another (not ECS this time, go Asus)
OR
Suffer with 512MB RAM again

Your call.

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adamp15

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5. November 2005 @ 07:00

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oh yea, sorry, I forgot to add that in the first post. I am running the 1GB stick by itself right now and it is doing just fine. it's only when I put both in there that it acts up.

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ddp

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5. November 2005 @ 11:31

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try new ram without old ram in both slots to see if ram or board is the problem.

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rugripper

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5. November 2005 @ 13:49

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look in the bios to see what ram is posting in there.when i first fired up my pc.the memory reading was all wrong.i changed the timing,settings, and change to ddr400 now it works fine.

i also bought some memory from memory ten,1gb stick,it was bad.had to send back

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activ8

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5. November 2005 @ 14:23

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Yeah quality ram is a must.

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