There are a few possibilities as to why this would happen, and here are three: Make sure the memory sticks you got are all the same speed (PC#### or ###MHz are the two most common identifiers of a RAM stick’s speed). Motherboards can sometimes not handle memory of different speeds all at the same time. It’s […]
Written on Sunday, July 13th, 2008 by hobertsutton :: 0 comments to this post
There are a few possibilities as to why this would happen, and here are three:
Make sure the memory sticks you got are all the same speed (PC#### or ###MHz are the two most common identifiers of a RAM stick’s speed). Motherboards can sometimes not handle memory of different speeds all at the same time. It’s also possible your motherboard does not support the speed the new memory runs at, so I’d check to see what the speed of the memory you just bought, and compare it to the old memory.
Another possibility is that your motherboard can only handle x of memory sticks at y speeds. For example, my old motherboard could only take two sticks of PC3200 memory at once, even though it had four memory slots, whereas it could handle more of slower memory speeds.
The last thing, which would be very uncommon, would be if one or more of the new memory sticks was bad, or if those two particular memory slots are bad. For this, I’d try moving around the sticks on the motherboard, or just putting in the new ones. There is a very low chance that this is the case, and I’d highly suggest checking out my other suggestions first.
Hope that helps!
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