RAM installation.

[Kwyjibo]

Right...I have taken the giant step of trying to install some extra RAM into my PC. I got my type of RAM from Crucial.com, as well as how much my Motherboard will accept etc, and went and purchased it today, along with an anti-static band.

 

Things went well...or so I thought. My PC fails to recognise the new RAM and has stopped working while the new RAM is inserted. Thankfully, it still works ok when I take the new one out.

 

Any ideas what I can do to make my PC recognise and accept the RAM?

[Acid]

Is it in the right way round?

[Kwyjibo]

haha yeah...I think so...?

[Nick Leeson]

have you tried taking out the old RAM and just running the new or are you mixing them?

[Kwyjibo]

Tried mixing and on its own. Get same problem, unless I take the new one out.

 

Not sure if this is anything - you may have guessed I know nothing about computers... - but when I went into the BIOS (F2 key?) it seems to have it 'recorded' in there (I have 1 gig normally, trying to upgrade to 2) but just doesn't work?

[Nick Leeson]

Take both sets out and post on here what it says on the stickers.

[Nick Leeson]

Your new RAM could also be duff BTW

[The Dude Abides]

Just ram it in.

 

hoho, i'm here all week.

[Kwyjibo]

Sorry for lateness of reply...

 

I have taken a note of what it says on the RAM currently in my PC and the one I bought to add.

 

PC:

 

1GB UNB PC2-4300 CL4

S/N: 230644112113

P/N: 78.01G66.9KB

 

New:

 

1GB PC2-5300

DDR2-667 CL=5-5-5-15

GX21GB5300LX

VOLTAGE: 1.8V

 

Right, even a man of my limited PC skills can see these are not a match - even though I only bought the new PC2-5300 after crucial.com told me that this is what was already installed on my PC.

 

I have done a quick Google search to see if you can mix these and saw this answer when someone had posed the question:

 

"1. If your motherboard is ONLY capable of using PC2-4300, it will just downclock any PC2-5300 that you put in there.

2. If you mix the two, BIOS will just synchronize their speed to that of the lowest which is the PC2-4300; even if board is compatible w/ PC2-5300."

 

I don't understand what it means, but, having tried the new stick again, my PC/motherboard clearly is not liking the 5300. Should simply purchasing and installing a stick of PC2-4300 be enough?

 

Cheers gents.

[DJLJ]

Sorry for lateness of reply...

 

I have taken a note of what it says on the RAM currently in my PC and the one I bought to add.

 

PC:

 

1GB UNB PC2-4300 CL4

S/N: 230644112113

P/N: 78.01G66.9KB

 

New:

 

1GB PC2-5300

DDR2-667 CL=5-5-5-15

GX21GB5300LX

VOLTAGE: 1.8V

 

Right, even a man of my limited PC skills can see these are not a match - even though I only bought the new PC2-5300 after crucial.com told me that this is what was already installed on my PC.

 

I have done a quick Google search to see if you can mix these and saw this answer when someone had posed the question:

 

"1. If your motherboard is ONLY capable of using PC2-4300, it will just downclock any PC2-5300 that you put in there.

2. If you mix the two, BIOS will just synchronize their speed to that of the lowest which is the PC2-4300; even if board is compatible w/ PC2-5300."

 

I don't understand what it means, but, having tried the new stick again, my PC/motherboard clearly is not liking the 5300. Should simply purchasing and installing a stick of PC2-4300 be enough?

 

Cheers gents.

 

Yes.

[Kwyjibo]

All sorted. Thanks for your help, chaps.