Roger78
03-16-2003, 03:10 PM
I got a new stick of 512MB TwinMOS PC2700 today, so I installed it in my mainboard. I loaded up windows then started BF1942, I loaded up El Alamein and was surprized that map loading was just as slow as before. I went into Sandra and saw that it only reported 256MB of RAM.
I shut down the computer and tried the stick in the other free slot, but it still only reported 256MB on post.
I removed the other stick, and the computer refused to post, no matter what memory slot I tried it in.
I decided to put back the old stick again, and got slightly hot headed and a chill down my spine when once again it refused to post. I was thinking how on earth could I have managed to fry both sticks when I grounded myself every single time before handling any of the sticks and making sure not to touch the components on the sticks.
After trying the old stick in all 3 memory slots several times, it finally decided to post again. But after that it refused to post if the new stick was inserted, while at the beginning it would post but fail to find anything more than 256MB.
Could it be DOA (most likely), or that my mainboard simply doesn't like this RAM? My mainboard is an Epox 8K3A.
The sticker on the new ram reads this:
P/N: M2G4J16AGATT4F0B11DDT (above the bar code)
309M53016940033
PC2700(CL2) 512MB DDR-DIMM
The modules have this printed on them:
TwinMOS
0309D
TMD7608F8E60A
Has anyone had similar problems with this RAM/MB combo or with that ram and different Mainboards, or with that mainboard and different RAM?
I'm thinking of testing the RAM in a different mainboard, I asked one friend, but he only had a SDRAM MB.
Someone on another forum told me to clear the CMOS after putting in the new stick, so I tried that but still no post with the new stick in.
I shut down the computer and tried the stick in the other free slot, but it still only reported 256MB on post.
I removed the other stick, and the computer refused to post, no matter what memory slot I tried it in.
I decided to put back the old stick again, and got slightly hot headed and a chill down my spine when once again it refused to post. I was thinking how on earth could I have managed to fry both sticks when I grounded myself every single time before handling any of the sticks and making sure not to touch the components on the sticks.
After trying the old stick in all 3 memory slots several times, it finally decided to post again. But after that it refused to post if the new stick was inserted, while at the beginning it would post but fail to find anything more than 256MB.
Could it be DOA (most likely), or that my mainboard simply doesn't like this RAM? My mainboard is an Epox 8K3A.
The sticker on the new ram reads this:
P/N: M2G4J16AGATT4F0B11DDT (above the bar code)
309M53016940033
PC2700(CL2) 512MB DDR-DIMM
The modules have this printed on them:
TwinMOS
0309D
TMD7608F8E60A
Has anyone had similar problems with this RAM/MB combo or with that ram and different Mainboards, or with that mainboard and different RAM?
I'm thinking of testing the RAM in a different mainboard, I asked one friend, but he only had a SDRAM MB.
Someone on another forum told me to clear the CMOS after putting in the new stick, so I tried that but still no post with the new stick in.