Can't find info on my motherboard

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  1. Howartc3

    Howartc3 Member

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    Hi,

    I have just bought a bundled PC! but one of the reasons why it was so cheap was that their wasn't any instructions.

    I bought an extra stick of memory (1 gig ddr400 3200 3.0v) but it won't boot with this in my 3rd of 4 ddr slots? the 1st 2 are 256 ddr400 3200 2.5v.
    It will and is now sat in slot 1 so I've currently got 1.2 gig memory.
    The below info is the PC I have bought and the info that I can get off the motherboard.

    AMD Sempron Processor 3000+
    - 512MB DDRII SDRAM
    - 80GB Hard Drive
    - DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive - To read DVDs and CDs and write CDs
    - ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 integrated graphics
    - Integrated gigabit LAN
    - 8 USB 2.0 Sockets
    - PCI Express (Add-on Graphics Card)

    GIGABYTE K8A482M (can't see this on the gigabyte site?)
    ULI - ALI
    GRS 482M (whatever that is?)
    written near the DDR slots are (DDR1 : DDR2 : DDR3 : DDR4)
    If anyone could help, point or advise me it would be most appreciated.
    Rgds

    Carl..
     
    Howartc3, Jan 17, 2006
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  2. boxwrench

    boxwrench Guest

    Try putting the 1 gig chip in slot 1 and the others in 2 and 3.Reboot and see if it shows up that way.Let us know what you get.
     
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  3. Auslander

    Auslander Senior member

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    i don't know much about your board, but i do know that if you are trying to run 3 sticks on a board set to run the ram dual channel, it won't boot. you need either 2 or 4 sticks.
     
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    wdowsing Regular member

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    Are u using DDR2 ram? because u say u use DDR400 then u say above
     
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    Auslander Senior member

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    he's using an AMD mobo/proc..no ddrII at all :D
     
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    wdowsing Regular member

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    i no that and u no that but does he no that
     
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  7. Howartc3

    Howartc3 Member

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    Sorry DDR400 not DDRII I cut and pasted that out of an email it must of been inputed incorrectly.

    Ok I swapped the memory around as suggested & it seemed to solve that issue.. Thanks so it looks like the board is setup to take memory in any series? So problem solved but the memory I bought is 3.0V and the original memory is 2.5V will the new stick harm my board as it also says 2.5 on the DDR slots!! O by the way the 1st 2 slots are purple and the other 2 are orange?? this you can see is why I want to find a motherboard manual!! Thanks all so far :))
     
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  8. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    are you certain it is a gigabyte board as all their boards start with ga-????????? not k?
     
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  9. Morph416

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    You can use a simple program called BIOS Agent, or CPU-Z to I.D. the board....but if it won't boot using the 1gig stick chances are the difference in memory modules may account for it.

    Not quite true. Gigabyte motherboards such as my GA-7N400-L will run dual channel mode with memory in slots 1, 2 and 4.

    The closest Gigabyte model I can find near that model number is GA-K8A480M found here:
    http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_GA-K8A480M-9.htm

    Is this the model you have?
    There is a manual available for that board, just click on the Manual link at the site.
     
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  10. Leningrad

    Leningrad Regular member

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    what is your Mother board model? YOur BIOS version?
    If you teel me i will help you
     
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    cheack your system info protocol (SIP)
     
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