ram.....wierd.

[duncan9562]

hello people. Problem after upgrading my pc. I bought a new pc recently and got it all working and everythings been fine. Its been running on 512mb ddr pc2700 ram. I pulled 2 sticks of 256mb ddr pc2700 ram from an old machine that used to have 2x256 and 1x512 running along side eachother. I try and use the 2x256 and 1x512 in my new machine but i can only use one or the other.........wat am i doing wrong?

 

[Counter-Strike]

What motherboard do you have? I'll check it out.

 

[duncan9562]

i have a gigabyte NF-CK804

 

[Trifid]

The motherboard supports dual channel ram, so you can not have 2 in dual and one in single channel.

Edit: you could try having the ram in this configuration, the 2 256's in the same channel, and the 512 in the other. There is no guarentees, but it did work sometimes on the socket A's.

 

[duncan9562]

sorry im a bit lost, i have 4 slots on the mainboard. what do you meen?

 

[Trifid]

Try putting the ram in 256 than 512 then 256 order (or depending on your motherboard 256, 256, 512 - for if it is channel 1 2 1) so the motherboard will either make it so none of the ram works in dual channel, or like what I said above, but that was more for socket A.

 

[RicoDirenzo]

did you put the 2x256 in together side by side and then the 512 single? I think that is what trifid is suggesting.

 

[duncan9562]

yeah cos the board has coloured slots, i put the 2x256 on the first 2 with the same coloured slots then the 512 in the 3rd slot which was a different colour. In my last pc i had them 1 2 1, 256 512 256 and it worked fine.

 

[Counter-Strike]

Why not try it like that then?