Calling anyone that knows stuff about PCs

[MDV]

Yes, I'm asking PC questions on a guitar forum, cos I'm not even CLOSE to nerdy enough to be registered on any PC forums. (my nerdiness lies elsewhere!)

I just got some new ram and my PC doesnt recognise it. Is the ram buggered or do I have to do something to make it pick it up because its a different clock speed to the old stuff? (533 to 800Mhz).

Any takers?

Anyone wanna buy some ram?

[Transcend]

Yes, I'm asking PC questions on a guitar forum, cos I'm not even CLOSE to nerdy enough to be registered on any PC forums. (my nerdiness lies elsewhere!)

I just got some new ram and my PC doesnt recognise it. Is the ram buggered or do I have to do something to make it pick it up because its a different clock speed to the old stuff? (533 to 800Mhz).

Any takers?

Anyone wanna buy some ram?

im not entirely clued up on the newer stuff but i believe that if you've bought 800mhz that it wont work because its at a much higher clock speed than your old ram.

check any settings in your bios and also if you have the mother board manual check if theres any parts in there about using different speed ram together.

[Mr Ed]

^^^

Check the motherboard manual. There are so many different things that they can and can't support.

But yeah, I always try to match RAM - speed for speed, hell... I always get the exact same model - to avoid such possible problems.

[Kilby]

In the past it was possible to clock faster RAM at lower speeds, however after speeds went past about 333MHz they also htarted playing about with the voltage that the memory required.

Basically this having to go with the matched DIMMS and speeds.

Things got worse with DDR & DDR3 :(

This is the reason that I am stuck with 4 laptops in the house that are so RAM starved that theyre useless for anything, and I can't get RAM that matches (at a reasionable price)

[Mr Ed]

Laptop RAM sucks. Especially if you have a Tosh because they take specialist RAM that ONLY fits their models.

Hence why my laptop serves one purpose only - t'internet.

[jt]

:D Had the same problem in the end i had to go & buy Ram chips that were identicle to the ones allready installed on my machine. This was seriously limiting as it means my PC cant get above 1 gig of Ram without me having to replace & up grade the motherboard. If you bought the Ram at some where like PC world then take it back & tell them, they will exchange it for the correct chip, they did this with me as they no this is quite common so dont panic !

 :D  8)

[MDV]

Thanks for the help guys.

I think its a bios thing. Needs flashing. I'll take it to my local PC dudes, who'll do such things for me for nowt cos we go to the same local  :lol:

[machine_of_god]

One of two problems with that;

1 - Can't have RAM sticks of different speeds together on the same computer, cuz the computer can only run your RAM at one speed. So if the speed specs of one stick are different from the other, it gets all confused and bad things happen   :lol:

2 - Even if you pull out the old, slower RAM and drop in the new, faster RAM, you gotta make sure that your motherboard supports the new RAM speed, and that it's compatible with the CPU you're using, otherwise you'll have to use a RAM divider in the BIOS.

Hehe, hope your PC dudes know their biz   8)

[MDV]

Thanks machine, but I know you cant mix ram speeds and the specs of the ram and mobo line up perfectly for every DIMM, so it should be able to take it just fine

There are some people around that have the same ram/mobo combo that had the same problem and flashed the bios and it works. So I'm gonna get that done just as soon as my PC isnt essential (doing some recording with it now: its not allowed to fukk up!!!)