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(solved)would 2 gb ram for my intel mothre board spoil the boot
jraju:
Hi, boggins
There are 4 slots. And i do not know how to use 2 g b. Previously, i had only 512 mb ram and added the 11 g b ram on another slot. But after two or three boots, my computer experienced problem in booting. Monitor switching off. Then i removed the ram from 512 mb slot and it worked and booted normally. There are two blue slots and two black slots. I think two blue slots would support 1 gb and it is single channel layer . The other two are black which would support dual layer rams. I do not know much about those intricacies. But i have checked the two blue slots with 1 gb each but my old 1 gb ram is recognised in boot, it is not booting normally and i am getting screen of start up repairs. But it would not do anything and looping in the repair and then will say startup could not repair your computer or to that effect. My new ram which i added worked perfectly well in the two slots , which my old ram fails.
Could i check the black one which supports dual layer ram? I am enclosing herewith the product guide to my mobo. Please tell, how could i check the other ram. Could i use the dual layer for my 1 gb ram . So that i could test if it works . But certainly i did know that one blue slot is recognising but not fully. Or it recognises the ram but the circuit or the other specifics are not working . Pl see pages 36 onwards and advise
Boggin:
From reading that, if you have 2x1GB sticks and 512MB stick, you put the two 1GB sticks in both the Blue slots and add the 512MB stick into the first of the Black ones.
Putting say, 1x1GB and the 512MB both into Blue could cause problems as they are best fitted in pairs.
What I would do is to just stick the same stick into each of the slots in turn to see if those slots work and then repeat with the other sticks, but it sounds as though your old 1GB stick is failing/failed.
Stick the good 1GB into the first of the Blue and the 512MB into the first of the black and that should work if trying individual sticks in all slots allows the computer to boot normally.
Willy2:
I looked at the documentation (page 36 & 37). Based on that I concluded the following:
- Try this: Place the 512 MB (the stick with the smallest memory) in Channel A (DIMM 0) and place the 1 GB (stick with the larger memory)in Channel B (DIMM 0).
- If you want to expand the memory then you must fill DIMM 0 first (Channel A first and then B) and after that DIMM 1 (Channel A first and then B).
- Run Piriform's SPECCY. It's a good program that can pull up what kind of memory you have.
jraju:
hi, my computer doe not boot. it stops at failure boot screen. when i cleaned the hdd and tried to reinstall win seven, it stops at windows loading files ribbon, the monitor auto stops.i tried xp and it also stopped at the intial loading itself. i checked and found that the ram is gone. comp technician has given ddr 400 pc 2300 BUT it does not seem to be compatible with motherboard which says either ddrin ;l 400 or ddr 333 as compatible. do i need to change the ram to one of these. how to know that ddr 400 pc2300 is incompatible by input in another computer as boggins link above could not be executed in affected computer. would you kindly advise whether it is compatible or is this the source of problem the monitor blinks after loading ribbons in win seven and stops at initial loading at xp. ;but when i chekced during working, iit is shown as compatible ram in the boggin link
Boggin:
Can you post the motherboard number so that I can look at the specs.
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