Computer is a new custom built i did online heres whats inside Dualcore 2.2 AMD Athlon 64 (internal water cooled) 1024 MB Corsair Xetreme DDR2 800 mhz ram 250 gig HD and 80gig HD Nvidia/Gigabyte motherboard 6 channel audio Dual 512 mb Nvidia 7300 GT's Runin SLi 400 watt power supply Case is pretty big with a 8 inch fan in front and 10 inch fan on side, and a cpple fans on inside 12mm ones Ok so I try to install some ram to my computer to maybe speed it up yes i am an idiot since it was already fast and put in ram and try to turn it on nothin happens, so i take ram out and have it back to way it was and try to turn it on again, this time you see the lights to the fans flash on for 1/2 a second and thats it. That happens now every time, also the light for the ethernet is on before i hit the power as usual and there is a Multi card reader in front bays that has 2 lights on as usuall b4 i try to turn on so its gettin power. when i hit power the fans dont even get a chance to spin b4 it turns of it lasts about .05 secs after i hit power button.
Did you ground yourself before touching the RAM? I think you might have caused damage by static electricity.
well im not totally sure if the ram i put in was compatiable it was a 256 DDR maybe 133mhz but deff under 300mhz, ones i had in there were 2x 512mb corsair xtreame 800 mhz and are DDR2, i am sure i was grounded becuase i hand handled the metal case b4 i tried to put in ram, i just want it to work now with orginal setup if i can even get it started back up, now im thinking maybe it blew somthing becuase maybe the ram wasnt all the way in but i dont know what would have went bad
ddr & ddr2 ram are not compatible with each other & supposedly can't put 1 type of ram into other type's socket because of the notch's location. does that board have both ddr & ddr2 slots on it?
Maybe you messed up your RAM sockets by forcing the ram into them? Try getting a replacement board from Gigabyte.
Well i didnt have to force it in tho it was same slot ram jus differnt speed and MB, and there are 4 slots for ram im not sure if the 3rd would mess up the 1st and 2nd. Im thinking that the ram wasnt seated all the way in the mother board when i turned it on there wasnt any smells or anything when i did and soon as i seen it didnt work i turned it off and took that ram out and tried to turn it back on and all it would do is flash the fan lights and spin them for less than 1/2 a second
GA-M55SLI-S4 (rev. 2.0) NVIDIA® nForce4 SLI chipset 1. AMD Athlon™64 X2/ Athlon™64 socket AM2 platform 2. Supports high performance Dual Channel DDR2 800 memory 3. NVIDIA SLI Multi-GPU function for extreme graphics performance 4. Integrated NVIDIA SATA 3Gb/s with RAID function 5. Optimized Gigabit LAN connection 6. Enhances security with NVIDIA TCP/IP Acceleration technology 7. Integrated T.I. IEEE1394 FireWire interface 8. Integrated high quality 8-channel AC'97 audio thats motherboard so i guess it doesnt support that ram so what would have blown to make it not work with original setup and that (DDR2 800 memory) is what was in there in 1st place
DDR ram doesn't fit into DDR2 slots, they have notches in different places. If it fit then either it wasn't DDR ram you bought or something was wrong with the RAM socket in your mobo. Either case I suggest you RMA the board.
