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MikeIke

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I recently bought 2gigs of ram for my pc. I had 1 gig in. When I put more than 1 gig of ram into the motherboard the pc wont boot up. My motherboard is a 915p Combo MSI. If anymore info is needed please let me know. I think its a voltage problem I just dont know how to increase the DDR2 Voltage on the motherboard.
 
I hit the power button and it just doesn't project anything onto the screen it just sits there with a black screen. Now if it can hold 2 why isn't it reading the 2nd gig of ram then?
 
MikeIke said:
I recently bought 2gigs of ram for my pc. I had 1 gig in. When I put more than 1 gig of ram into the motherboard the pc wont boot up. My motherboard is a 915p Combo MSI. If anymore info is needed please let me know. I think its a voltage problem I just dont know how to increase the DDR2 Voltage on the motherboard.
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Okay when you say you put more than one gig in, does that mean you added more than one or you had a total of more than one. The max the max the motherboard will work on is 2GB.
 
I had 1 gig of ram. I bought 2more gigs, that would give me at total of 3. Im cool with it only holding 2 i can deal with that till i get a new motherboard. Now when i make the total amount of ram in the motherboard 2 gigs it will boot up fine but it only reads 1 gig.
 
I do take out the old ram. When i put the new ram in it only reads 1 gig of it, but my motherboard can support 2.
 
G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail

There's the info.
 
so you put the 2 1gb sticks of RAM in the 2 slots, giving you 2gb of RAM and when there is the 2GB in you get a black screen and nothing on the screen at all?

how many RAM slots does your mobo have?
 
looking at your mobo with 4 slots, im thinking it is up to 4x512mb sticks because of the voltages accross the modules, so you can't use 2 1GB sticks in 2 slots
 
I currently have the issue of my computer not booting properly (nothing comes up on the screen) and it happened when I tried to install some RAM now it dosent work even if I just have the old stick of RAM in.
 
Aastii said:
how many RAM slots does your mobo have?
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How does that have any relevance to what he is asking?



ANYWAY

What model is your mobo?
Also have you tryed to find out which stick of RAM your mobo isnt registering?
You could maybe have faulty RAM?
 
Well the 2 sticks of ram are fine tested both. Now I did notice that when I tried to put the 1gig stick into the first DDR2 slot the PC would not boot up. When I put the 1gig into the 2nd slot it worked fine. Would this mean that the first DDR2 slot is messed up or what? What I think I'm going to do is just buy a new motherboard, anyone know a good one kinda cheapish.
 
kookooshortman55 said:
Again according to the specs on your motherboard, it doesn't support DDR2 PC2 6400.

http://reviews.cnet.com/motherboards/msi-915p-combo-fr/4507-3049_7-30990032.html?tag=mncol;psum

"Supported RAM Speed PC2-4300 , PC2700 , PC2-3200 , PC3200"

Unless this isn't your motherboard, can you clarify?
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It doesnt matter if the mobo doesnt support 6400, it will just put it to the lower one that it can handle. It is like if you put a 6400 and 4300 matched set of RAM in a system the 6400 will work the same as 4300. I put 2GB of old RAM from my computer which was 6400 RAM into my mums very ancient computer which was 2700 RAM and it worked at 2700

I still maintain that it will be you can only have 4x512mb to make the 2gb instead of 2x1024mb to make it because of the voltages accross the nb and RAM slots
 
MikeIke said:
Well the 2 sticks of ram are fine tested both. Now I did notice that when I tried to put the 1gig stick into the first DDR2 slot the PC would not boot up. When I put the 1gig into the 2nd slot it worked fine. Would this mean that the first DDR2 slot is messed up or what? What I think I'm going to do is just buy a new motherboard, anyone know a good one kinda cheapish.
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well reading that it sounds like it is the mobo if 1 RAM slot isn't working.

what are the rest of your specs so we can match processor and chipset if needed?
 
I put 2GB of old RAM from my computer which was 6400 RAM into my mums very ancient computer which was 2700 RAM and it worked at 2700
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I call BS. If PC6400 existed in DDR1 then yes that would happen but it doesn't exist and they didn't make PC2-2700 either.
well reading that it sounds like it is the mobo if 1 RAM slot isn't working.
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I agree, if that's what happened then a RAM slot is probably bad and that's causing the problems.
 
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