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Howartc3

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17. January 2006 @ 08:11

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Hi,

I have just bought a bundled PC! but one of the reasons why it was so cheap was that their wasn't any instructions.

I bought an extra stick of memory (1 gig ddr400 3200 3.0v) but it won't boot with this in my 3rd of 4 ddr slots? the 1st 2 are 256 ddr400 3200 2.5v.
It will and is now sat in slot 1 so I've currently got 1.2 gig memory.
The below info is the PC I have bought and the info that I can get off the motherboard.

AMD Sempron Processor 3000+
- 512MB DDRII SDRAM
- 80GB Hard Drive
- DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive - To read DVDs and CDs and write CDs
- ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 integrated graphics
- Integrated gigabit LAN
- 8 USB 2.0 Sockets
- PCI Express (Add-on Graphics Card)

GIGABYTE K8A482M (can't see this on the gigabyte site?)
ULI - ALI
GRS 482M (whatever that is?)
written near the DDR slots are (DDR1 : DDR2 : DDR3 : DDR4)
If anyone could help, point or advise me it would be most appreciated.
Rgds

Carl..

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boxwrench

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17. January 2006 @ 08:44

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Try putting the 1 gig chip in slot 1 and the others in 2 and 3.Reboot and see if it shows up that way.Let us know what you get.

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Auslander

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17. January 2006 @ 09:11

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i don't know much about your board, but i do know that if you are trying to run 3 sticks on a board set to run the ram dual channel, it won't boot. you need either 2 or 4 sticks.

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wdowsing

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17. January 2006 @ 09:17

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Quote:
512MB DDRII SDRAM

Are u using DDR2 ram? because u say u use DDR400 then u say above

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System 1 :- Main PC: AMD XP 3200+ - OC Slightly 2.31Ghz, 1024 MB DDR PC2700, 1 x 40GB Hard Drive, 1 x 60GB Hard Drive, ATI 9600XT (256 MB)Graphics Card.
Laptop 1: 1GB DDR2 Ram, 100Gb Samsung HDD, ATI X700 128mb Graphics Card.
System 2: Downloading PC: AMD Sempron 2500+, 512 MB DDR PC2700, 1 x 40GB Hard Drive.

Auslander

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17. January 2006 @ 09:20

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he's using an AMD mobo/proc..no ddrII at all :D

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wdowsing

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17. January 2006 @ 09:23

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i no that and u no that but does he no that

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Howartc3

Newbie

17. January 2006 @ 10:33

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Sorry DDR400 not DDRII I cut and pasted that out of an email it must of been inputed incorrectly.

Ok I swapped the memory around as suggested & it seemed to solve that issue.. Thanks so it looks like the board is setup to take memory in any series? So problem solved but the memory I bought is 3.0V and the original memory is 2.5V will the new stick harm my board as it also says 2.5 on the DDR slots!! O by the way the 1st 2 slots are purple and the other 2 are orange?? this you can see is why I want to find a motherboard manual!! Thanks all so far :))

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ddp

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17. January 2006 @ 12:03

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are you certain it is a gigabyte board as all their boards start with ga-????????? not k?

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Morph416

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17. January 2006 @ 13:37

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You can use a simple program called BIOS Agent, or CPU-Z to I.D. the board....but if it won't boot using the 1gig stick chances are the difference in memory modules may account for it.

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that if you are trying to run 3 sticks on a board set to run the ram dual channel, it won't boot. you need either 2 or 4 sticks.

Not quite true. Gigabyte motherboards such as my GA-7N400-L will run dual channel mode with memory in slots 1, 2 and 4.

The closest Gigabyte model I can find near that model number is GA-K8A480M found here:
http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_GA-K8A480M...

Is this the model you have?
There is a manual available for that board, just click on the Manual link at the site.

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This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 17. January 2006 @ 13:48

Leningrad

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17. January 2006 @ 14:26

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what is your Mother board model? YOur BIOS version?
If you teel me i will help you

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