I recently purchased a single 4Gb stick of DDR2-800 for my system, and with it installed in either slot or in any combination of current working RAM sticks, I cannot get the system to even POST. I do not get any beeps or mobo light indications as I cannot find any speaker or notification lights on the mobo.
The new RAM is a F2-6400CL5S-4GBPQ DDRII800 PC2-6400 4096MBX1 CL5-5-5-15 1.8-1.9V
Current system configuration is as follows:
Gigabyte GA-M68M-S2P rev.2.3 BIOS FC
AMD Athlon II X2 245 2.9 Ghz
2X1Mb F2-6400CL5S-1GBNT (2Gb DDR2-800)
ATI HD 4350 512Mb
160Gb Velociraptor
200Gb Seagate
Opticals: LG DVD R/W and HP DVD R/W (Lightscribe)
460W P/S
I have attempted to bump the BIOS RAM voltage to 1.85 and 1.90 V with no effect. The RAM purchased was not on the Gigabyte list of tested ram that worked with the mobo, but other ram of similar characteristics was listed so I wanted to stick with G.Skill as that is what it was currently running on. I have tested the new ram in both slot 1 and 2 (only 2 slots) both solo and with a known good 1Gb in the other slot. With the 4Gb in any slot, I get no POST and no indications other than the CD-ROM drive flashes and the HDD activity light is intermittent. I pulled all RAM from system and got the same indications. Is my new ram bad, is there any other setting I can try in my bios prior to requesting an RMA?
Thank You,
TripleD
The new RAM is a F2-6400CL5S-4GBPQ DDRII800 PC2-6400 4096MBX1 CL5-5-5-15 1.8-1.9V
Current system configuration is as follows:
Gigabyte GA-M68M-S2P rev.2.3 BIOS FC
AMD Athlon II X2 245 2.9 Ghz
2X1Mb F2-6400CL5S-1GBNT (2Gb DDR2-800)
ATI HD 4350 512Mb
160Gb Velociraptor
200Gb Seagate
Opticals: LG DVD R/W and HP DVD R/W (Lightscribe)
460W P/S
I have attempted to bump the BIOS RAM voltage to 1.85 and 1.90 V with no effect. The RAM purchased was not on the Gigabyte list of tested ram that worked with the mobo, but other ram of similar characteristics was listed so I wanted to stick with G.Skill as that is what it was currently running on. I have tested the new ram in both slot 1 and 2 (only 2 slots) both solo and with a known good 1Gb in the other slot. With the 4Gb in any slot, I get no POST and no indications other than the CD-ROM drive flashes and the HDD activity light is intermittent. I pulled all RAM from system and got the same indications. Is my new ram bad, is there any other setting I can try in my bios prior to requesting an RMA?
Thank You,
TripleD
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