I have been running the system that I built for a while now, with no problems. One day the computer just wouldn't boot up. I turn it on and the power light and the HDD lights turn on but the MB doesn't post. I did some diagnostics and determined that it was a RAM chip. I have been using a Kingston 512mb ram stick and a 1024mb memory power pc3200 stick.
I removed the 1gb stick and the system boots up normally. I installed just the 1gb stick and nothing. I ended up buying a 2gb(1gbx2) PC3200 DDR 400 kits off ebay. Received those and nothing. Neither worked. I then realized that i had purchased high density ram and that my MB wouldn't support it. I returned those. I found some memory master 1gb sticks on bestbuy.com for $55.99 for the pair. Exactly the same chip. They said low density so i bought them. They don't work either.
So i guess my question is what went wrong. I've got 3 1gb sticks here (1 of which used to work perfectly) that don't work. I need to get this fixed because 512mb ram is just not doing it for me. Thank you in advance for your help.
I removed the 1gb stick and the system boots up normally. I installed just the 1gb stick and nothing. I ended up buying a 2gb(1gbx2) PC3200 DDR 400 kits off ebay. Received those and nothing. Neither worked. I then realized that i had purchased high density ram and that my MB wouldn't support it. I returned those. I found some memory master 1gb sticks on bestbuy.com for $55.99 for the pair. Exactly the same chip. They said low density so i bought them. They don't work either.
So i guess my question is what went wrong. I've got 3 1gb sticks here (1 of which used to work perfectly) that don't work. I need to get this fixed because 512mb ram is just not doing it for me. Thank you in advance for your help.
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