Just bought a 1Mb ram off ebay and swapped it over and the pc wont boot up with it in. Before I kick off on the seller would there be any reason why this ram wont work in my PC?? I noticed the 2x256's I taken out are single sided chips, but this 1Mb is a single stick with double sided chips. My M/B is Asrock P4i65GV with a P4 3.0 800Mb FSB, 1Mb cache. Previous ram was 2x256Mb DDR 266 pc2100. New ram is PC3200 DDR 400. My M/B says dual DDR400 on it. Says on the ebay listing that its HD ram and if your pc wont take HD ram then it will only show the 512 from one side, but its not even doing that, its not starting up at all.... Anyone help?? Thanks.
I checked your boards website http://www.asrock.com/product/product_p4i65gv.htm and it says max of 2GB with 2 slots so you should be able to put a full stick in one because some older ones dont like a full GB in one slot. Are there any windows error beeps on startup? Fan kicking on but no hard drive activity? Anything?
No beeps, the fans start up but there is no hdd activity at all and nothing happens. Someone on another forum says my MB isnt compatible with high density ram??
That's possible, I don't know all the techno-terms, just know what I did when I built a system and the RAM didn't work. I assume you took the stick out and tried with your old RAM to make sure you didn't blast your board with static.
i have a problem with that the board can't support high density ram because of how new the board is in technology wise like 800fsb & ddr2(?). try 1 stick of ram at a time firmly seated to see if posts or not as possible might have a bad stick of ram knocking the good 1 off line so no post.
