3 sticks of Ram won't work on my Asus P4B533...

[WayneTeK]

I have two sticks of 256mb PC2100 from crucial and one stick i just bought from Newegg which is a Rosewill 512mb PC2100..

256 + 256 +512 = ~1GIG...

My stupid system won't boot up. I looked up some help stuff online, but i get this..


http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:vHTM...q.php+asus+p4b533+ram+three+dimm&hl=en

I tried to install 3 pieces of 512MB memory modules on ASUS P4B533-E Main board, but it turned out. Why?

In order to install 3 pieces of memory modules on ASUS P4B533-E Main board, please make sure that the DIMM modules used on DIMM slot 2 and DIMM slot 3 are both single-sided modules. The reason is simply because DIMM slot 2 & 3 are sharing the same row.

 

[WayneTeK]

bump. anybody know what this means?

 

[jscarrozzo]

try some simple stuff...like memtest to see if the memory is good..i recently got a bad stick brand new, so anything is possible. if you are getting memory errors, then test each individually to see what the bad stick is.

then try different slots w/each of the memory sticks if all the memory is good. I would try putting the 512 in the first slot then the others in 2 and three. dont know if that helps, but is worth a shot.

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: jscarrozzo.....I would try putting the 512 in the first slot then the others in 2 and three. dont know if that helps, but is worth a shot.

That might be the fix if it was a memory bank problem. But, USUALLY, the symptom would be that the system wouldn't recognize all the added memory. But it would still boot.