Ram Help

td6o4 · 01-22-2006, 07:21 AM

i had a 512 mb samsung ddr pc3200 ddr 400 ram
and i bought 2 more of the same ram but with ramsinks on them
i put the two ram with heatsink in the dual slots and it says dual channel enabled wen i turn on so decide to put back the other ram so i have 1.50 ram in total so i proceed to put it in... so this is where it gets to get weird. ever since i put the ram in the computer keeps rebooting by itself no errors or whatever but when it does start to work windows error pops up every 2 minutes and theres missing stuff in my programs. So i take out the single ram and leave the 2 ramsinked rams in and it works fine but i dont wanna waste this ram so is there anyway i can fix this? my friend is having the same problem

johnb35 · 01-22-2006, 02:59 PM

You can't mix ram of different kinds. They all have to be the same. all have to be ramsinks or just plain ram.

[-0MEGA-] · 01-22-2006, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by johnb35

all have to be ramsinks or just plain ram.

That is completely untrue, the fact that they have ramsinks have nothing to do with dual channel.

The only way for dual channel to work is if you have 2 of the same size ram sticks (2x 512MB for example), and they have to be in the appropriate slots for it to work.

td6o4 · 01-23-2006, 06:08 AM

dual channel is not the probelm its working but my problem is i wanna put my 3rd stick of 512 in but when i do it starts rebooting by itself

krimson_king · 01-23-2006, 04:53 PM

are you sure it can hold that much? im sure it can, but you may be making it somehow unstable.

td6o4 · 01-25-2006, 02:43 AM

how do i check :S ^^^^^^

01-22-2006, 07:21 AM	#1 (permalink)
td6o4 New Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 17	Ram Help i had a 512 mb samsung ddr pc3200 ddr 400 ram and i bought 2 more of the same ram but with ramsinks on them i put the two ram with heatsink in the dual slots and it says dual channel enabled wen i turn on so decide to put back the other ram so i have 1.50 ram in total so i proceed to put it in... so this is where it gets to get weird. ever since i put the ram in the computer keeps rebooting by itself no errors or whatever but when it does start to work windows error pops up every 2 minutes and theres missing stuff in my programs. So i take out the single ram and leave the 2 ramsinked rams in and it works fine but i dont wanna waste this ram so is there anyway i can fix this? my friend is having the same problem

01-23-2006, 04:53 PM	#5 (permalink)
krimson_king Gold Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: connecticut Age: 21 Posts: 466	are you sure it can hold that much? im sure it can, but you may be making it somehow unstable. __________________ sí, señor.

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01-22-2006, 02:59 PM	#2 (permalink)
johnb35 Platinum Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: IL, USA Age: 38 Posts: 830	You can't mix ram of different kinds. They all have to be the same. all have to be ramsinks or just plain ram.

01-23-2006, 06:08 AM	#4 (permalink)
td6o4 New Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 17	dual channel is not the probelm its working but my problem is i wanna put my 3rd stick of 512 in but when i do it starts rebooting by itself

01-25-2006, 02:43 AM	#6 (permalink)
td6o4 New Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 17	how do i check :S ^^^^^^