The whole story is I installed office 2003, computer running slow so I bought more memory, I have two bays only one filled with 512mb, ddr sdram PC2700. I tried to put in the 1 GB in the other bay, not ever previously used, and the computer kept beeping at me and would not boot. I took it out and replaced the old 512mb with the 1 gb in the working bay and everything runs fine, also when I tried to put the old working 512mb in the "bad" bay the computer again would not start. My question is do I have a "Bad" bay, or is there something in CMOS I have to do. I run XP and the computer motherboard is a ABIT SG72 Pentium 4 2.26ghz maximum memory 2048MB.
2007-05-29 08:14:44 · 6 answers · asked by Hawk 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
It is a bad motherboard apparently, dont buy computers from American computech :(
2007-05-29 08:58:29 · update #1
Good troubleshooting, swapping ou the parts and isolating the issue. No you do not have to change anythig in the bios. When you add new ramm, it just gives you a message that quantity has changed. Sounds like a bad mb.
2007-05-29 08:20:21 · answer #1 · answered by Harrison H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try again. You don't have the ram in there correctly. Your motherboard is beeping at you to tell you it can't go any further because there is no ram/it can't find it. Turn your computer off, unplug it, take the case off, make sure you are grounded by touching something metal so no static electricity goes onto the motherboard. Take the ram stick out. All the way out. open both of the white traps on the sides that lock it down. Then put it back in, straight up and down, and make sure both sides lock and make sure it is level. Also make sure all the grooves are lined up correctly since you will have a notch on one side. Then try booting your computer again. Keep repeating this until it is in there correctly. Also, make sure you are using slot 0 (zero) and not slot one to put the memory in or your computer may never recognize it.
2016-05-21 00:13:59 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are trying to run 2 diferent types of memory at the same time, but another gig stick like the other one and run them together!
2007-05-29 08:22:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably just a compatibility issue.
Some different types of RAM will not run together. I don't know if it is the memory timings or what causes it, but it happens quite frequently.
2007-05-29 08:28:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Remove, start . . .
Then . . .
Insert the memory, start . . .
You have to let me know what happened?
Try to make sure the hardware parts work or installed correctly before dealing with software issues . . .
2007-05-29 08:21:37 · answer #5 · answered by helpdesk916 ♦♣♠♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is possible the motherboard and processor just won't take 1Gb. You can run a checkup with Crucial to see. It's free and takes very little time.
http://www.crucial.com/eu/
2007-05-29 08:20:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋