Motherboard Extreme!! Please Help!! - Page 2

schleeb · 12-30-03, 12:37 AM

My guess is you can't mix and match RAM SIMMS, DIMMS etc. (whatever type mem you are using...) of those sizes. Mixing 64 Mb sticks and 256 Mb sticks is a bit odd. Check your MB manual to see what it legal. You might also have them ganged incorrectly i.e. you might have to have the smaller pair in slots 0 and 1 or perhaps they only work in slots 2 and 3. Also, as someone else said reset your BIOS.

hyjacked · 12-30-03, 07:50 AM

try:

-reset bios
-make sure all other hardware is correctly seated, you might have bumped something.
-look up what the 3 beeps means for your motherboard. it should be in the manual
-remove all hardware except for the minimum needed to run(video card, hd). if it boots fine then start adding pieces in one by one.

You might have a lack of power to the system, how big is your power supply? what all do you have in your computer?

12-30-03, 12:19 PM

TMusic007 was right. You have to have the same speed of RAM in each slot.

stevey500 · 01-02-04, 10:04 PM

Well, 3 beeps means first 64kb memory test error.... I have done everything I could do..... I can smell a "burnt" smell in the ramm slot area... its fried...

schleeb · 01-03-04, 04:05 PM

Get rid of the 64 Mb sticks... put the 2X256 in the first two mem slots, 0 and 1. Having different speeds won't fry them they will just not pass a memory test if you are trying to run them at too high of speed. I just find it really odd that you are trying to gang 256 and 64 Mb sticks together... Especially with the 64's in slots 0 and 1. Are you sure they are both the same memory type i.e. DIMM or SIMM or etc. If you tried to stick a SIMM stick in a DIMM slot you definitely have problems... or vice versa. Do you KNOW what memory types each are? In any case, ditch the 64s.

stevey500 · 01-04-04, 02:14 AM

All I know is that it is PC600 and PC800 RDRAM

schleeb · 01-05-04, 12:11 AM

Ahhh.... good old RAMBUS RAM. Never touch the stuff. I had thought it had died out in place of the DDR stuff. Unfortunately I know nothing about it, except that it was supposed to have better performance than DDR but never really caught on due to it's higher cost.

schleeb · 01-05-04, 12:19 AM

Check out this website It will tell you just about everything you need to know about RAMBUS ram along with memory do's and don'ts

http://www.rdramrambusmemory.com/mixing_brands.html