Asrock & 2GB Ram (Samsung)

[pioneercrazed]

Howdy,

I'm converting my friends dell into a basic gaming machine. Had to swap out the motherboard for something with AGP that had a 478 skt and micro=ATX. I figured this Asrock would be good since it is using the Intel chipset. I got the mobo brand new from Newegg, and the 2x1gb sticks of samsung ram off of ebay(new). I've also got the stick of 512 left over.

ASRock P4i65G is the board in use.

The RAM in question...

The computer will start but will not turn the monitor on with either or both of these sticks in use. But it will start normally with just the left over 512 generic Dell. Also, if I have one of the 1gb sticks in with the dell, the bios sees the 512 in Dimm1 for example and nothing where the 1gb stick is. This regular Samsung ram should work in this board, right?

Hardware:
ASRock P4i65G
P4 2.4B 533/512 l2
eVGA 6800nu (new)

I'm about to test the dimms in my A64 box using a Biostar T-Force mobo... Will let you all know how that turns out.

Thanks for any help.

 

[pioneercrazed]

Here's the response from the seller, is this true? If so, would something like Corsair Value RAM work, or would it be the same as this Samsung RAM?

After researching your motherboard, I found that it is incompatible with high density (128x4) ram and requires low density (64x8) ram. The specs of both of these ram are the same?the difference is the chip configuration. If you?d like I can exchange the high density ram for low density for an additional $50 USD each stick(for a total of $100 USD with shipping and insurance included) or you can exchange the 2GB of high density ram for 1GB of low density ram at no charge or you can return the item for a refund less shipping/handling (as stated in my return policy). Please let me know how you?d like to continue.

 

[Lord Evermore]

That was pretty much what I was thinking the problem was, but I couldn't immediately find any supporting evidence. It's a common problem that older chipsets or mainboards can't support the newest memory modules due to density issues, it's been happening for years every time someone has an old mainboard and buys new memory.

I don't know about the offer to exchange the memory. You might be better off locating memory with the right density and just sending this back. It will depend on how much the other memory costs, and whether it's cheaper to lose the shipping fees and buy new memory, or just pay the 50 bucks.

Exchanging it for 1GB of low-density memory would be the worst way to go about it I think, since you then double the cost per gigabyte. Paying the 50 for exchange would be better than that.

At this point, figuring in the cost of shipping it back, you're going to end up paying close to retail (at least retail on the cheapest modules) to get modules that will work from this seller. But you're going to lose the shipping costs you paid already, plus the costs for you to send it back, if you try to find some elsewhere, which is likely to make the total cost more than it'd cost to just pay the extra 50 here.

Too bad you're kinda getting screwed this time on trying to save through Ebay. Depending on where you could find modules that you were able to verify were 64x8 though, you are probably still saving money.