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..
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.
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.
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 )
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.
