Trouble With Ram

LinuxRocks · Guru Joined: 27 Nov 2003 Posts: 397 Location: New Mexico

Hey all,

Just got a shiny new AMD Athlon 64 3400 and Asus K8V SE Deluxe motherboard and set it up. I have 2 sticks of D333 REG ECC 2700 DDR Ram using Samsung K4H560838E-TCB3 chips. When I put both sticks in, the system doesnt post. However, when I use only one stick of ram, it comes up and runs fine.

Now, I installed the latest bios update and tried it again and still no go.

Is there a reason for this? Either stick by its self works fine, just not both at the same time.

Thanks!!!

Joe
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adaptr · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 3:00 pm Post subject:

One possible cause might be that the DIMMs are dual-sided but the mainboard does not in fact support this.
So one DIMM would use both slots, the second DIMM would not fit anymore.
How big are these DIMMs ?
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chunderbunny · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 3:33 pm Post subject:

How many RAM slots does that mobo have? It might be possible that using slots 1 + 3 works where slots 1 + 2 don't work.

LinuxRocks · Guru Joined: 27 Nov 2003 Posts: 397 Location: New Mexico

Hmm.. Never thought about that... They are dual sided RAM. 512 megs each.

Let me try to put one in slot 1 and slot 3 ( There are only 3 slots in the board)

Thanks for the tips!!

Joe

LinuxRocks · Guru Joined: 27 Nov 2003 Posts: 397 Location: New Mexico

Well, that didn't work

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Oh well, I will just get another 1 gig single stick of ram... That should do it

Thanks!!!

Joe