soarwitheagles
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Hi everyone,
I put together a system about 3 months ago and it works excellent. I installed PQI's DDR1 3200 duals. Two sticks at 512 MB each so that is a total of 1 gig.
My mother board is the ECS P4M800PRO-M. I recently attempted to upgrade to DDR 2 with 2 gigs. But each time I attempted to use the new DDR2 ram, one of my programs will not work.
My video card seemed to freak out at times as well.
The reason I wanted to go from 1 gig to 2 gigs is because I installed a TV tuner card and I would like to record some programs.
Here are my questions:
1. Why do some of my programs not work when I am using the DDR2 sticks?
2. I seemed to experience a noticable difference in the increase of speed when I updated from DDR 1 with 1 Gig to DDR 2 with 2 gigs! Is there really that much of a difference and do I really need the 2 gigs to do TV tuner recording?
3. Even though I returned the Kingston DDR2 2 gigs to Fry's, and tried a new package of them, the same issues arose. Is is possible the slot on my mother board is the issue and how can I test the DDR2 slots?
4. Any other ideas or thoughts? [please do not say get a life by getting a real MOBO. I have been unemployed and I barely was able to build this system even after waiting 10 months and buying only ad items from FRY's.].
Ok, hope someone can help me!
My System
Intel 805D [$78]
ESC P4M800PRO-M v.2 [free with 805d]
ThermaTake CPU Fan TR-2-M21-RX [$19]
Microfly clear case $25]
Ultra ATX 600 watt power supply SLi ready [free]
PQI DDR RAM 512+512MB=1GB [$69]
PPA Firewire PCI Card [$15]
e-GeForce 6200 LE APG Video Card 128MB [$29]
Pioneer DVR-710 DVD/CD burner [$25]
Maxtor 120 GB ATA HD-8 MB CACHE [$19]
Maxtor 200 GB SATA HD-8 MB CACHE [$59]
WINTV-HVR 1600[$90] Ouch!
Windows XP PRO [free, a friend gave it to me]
I put together a system about 3 months ago and it works excellent. I installed PQI's DDR1 3200 duals. Two sticks at 512 MB each so that is a total of 1 gig.
My mother board is the ECS P4M800PRO-M. I recently attempted to upgrade to DDR 2 with 2 gigs. But each time I attempted to use the new DDR2 ram, one of my programs will not work.
My video card seemed to freak out at times as well.
The reason I wanted to go from 1 gig to 2 gigs is because I installed a TV tuner card and I would like to record some programs.
Here are my questions:
1. Why do some of my programs not work when I am using the DDR2 sticks?
2. I seemed to experience a noticable difference in the increase of speed when I updated from DDR 1 with 1 Gig to DDR 2 with 2 gigs! Is there really that much of a difference and do I really need the 2 gigs to do TV tuner recording?
3. Even though I returned the Kingston DDR2 2 gigs to Fry's, and tried a new package of them, the same issues arose. Is is possible the slot on my mother board is the issue and how can I test the DDR2 slots?
4. Any other ideas or thoughts? [please do not say get a life by getting a real MOBO. I have been unemployed and I barely was able to build this system even after waiting 10 months and buying only ad items from FRY's.].
Ok, hope someone can help me!
My System
Intel 805D [$78]
ESC P4M800PRO-M v.2 [free with 805d]
ThermaTake CPU Fan TR-2-M21-RX [$19]
Microfly clear case $25]
Ultra ATX 600 watt power supply SLi ready [free]
PQI DDR RAM 512+512MB=1GB [$69]
PPA Firewire PCI Card [$15]
e-GeForce 6200 LE APG Video Card 128MB [$29]
Pioneer DVR-710 DVD/CD burner [$25]
Maxtor 120 GB ATA HD-8 MB CACHE [$19]
Maxtor 200 GB SATA HD-8 MB CACHE [$59]
WINTV-HVR 1600[$90] Ouch!
Windows XP PRO [free, a friend gave it to me]