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Poppa
09-02-2008, 08:48 AM
Hi all i recently had a new ASROCK P4i65G motherboard installed in my E machines 420 cos the old one blew.
The engineer fitted my old 256 mb memory stick into the board and though slow my PC works fine.
I just purchased from Novatech a RAM-21/1GB 266MHz 184Pin 1GB PC2100 DDR RAM DIMM 2.5V 2.1Gb for my PC, i removed the 256mb stick, inserted the new stick, and fired up the PC, nothing happened i only got a no signal sign on the monitor so i switched it all off, checked the stick was put in ok, and tried again, no joy.
Ithen tried the stick in the other slot, again it wouldnt boot up even, so i removed the new stick put my old one back in & it starts up just fine, i decided to try the new stick with the old one but though it started up its like the new memory was not there.
It seems others have had this trouble, i am at a loss why its happening, and dont know what to do, i wonder if the stick is faulty because according to the specs it should work, anyone got any ideas?

system7
09-02-2008, 08:27 PM
I love memory problems, maybe I should get out more. :D
Download CPU-Z (http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php) from the left hand menu. (NOT that dubious banner at the top! :roll: )
What I would like you to do is run this with both memory sticks installed, hopefully a working configuration. Then go to the last tab, which is called "About" and do a registers dump to a text file, which appears as an item called cpuz. Then scroll down through the file to the "Memory SPD" printout and paste it here.
Like so:

Memory SPD
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

DIMM #1

General
Memory type DDR2
Module format Regular UDIMM
Manufacturer (ID) (7F7F7FA700000000)
Size 512 MBytes
Max bandwidth PC2-4300 (266 MHz)
Part number CL4-4-4DDR2-533
Manufacturing date Week 47/Year 06

Attributes
Number of banks 1
Data width 64 bits
Correction None
Nominal Voltage 1.80 Volts
EPP no
XMP no

Timings table
Frequency (MHz) 200 266 266
CAS# 3.0 4.0 5.0
RAS# to CAS# delay 3 4 4
RAS# Precharge 3 4 4
TRAS 9 12 12
TRC 12 16 16

DIMM #2

General
Memory type DDR2
Module format Regular UDIMM
Manufacturer (ID) (0000000000000000)
Size 1024 MBytes
Max bandwidth PC2-4300 (266 MHz)
Part number
Serial number FFFFFFFF
Manufacturing date Week 08/Year 01

Attributes
Number of banks 1
Data width 64 bits
Correction None
Nominal Voltage 1.80 Volts
EPP no
XMP no

Timings table
Frequency (MHz) 200 266
CAS# 3.0 4.0
RAS# to CAS# delay 3 4
RAS# Precharge 3 4
TRAS 8 11
TRC 11 15
Intel 865 chipsets like matched memory for optimal performance, but trust me on the testing. We'll sort it out. :D