EPOX 8kha+ WILL let you install the memory backwards! = C1 Post error

[basalt51]

So many people have been having problems with the C1 post error that I thought I would share my experience. I just built an new computer on the 8kha+ with 768 MB of Crucial RAM. I got a C1 post error the first time I tried to boot so I tried every combination of my 3 sticks of memory I could until I smelled something burning and almost burnt my hands on the memory. Thats when I checked out the forums to see if anyone else was having problems. Turns out A LOT of people are having this problem. Some said they just pushed unusually hard and it finally seated properly, so I tried pressing as hard as I dared. No good.

I then decided I had better check again to make sure I was seating it properly (which I thought I had done). I figured if it was locking in place- which it was- I must be putting it in correctly. Trust me, I know the memory was locking in. I looked closely at the slot in the memory and it wasn't lining up with the post. I turned it around, pressed it down just like before, and everything worked fine. I'm not sure why or how the memory was able to lock in place backwards, but it did.

I have another 8kha+ board I bought in late October that has different memory slots then my new board. I'm not sure if there is someting wrong with the latches or the general design of the new slots, but be careful. You know what happens when you ASS U ME things!

Basalt

 

[greg]

Weird, I just got one and cannot insert them backwards.

 

[Wind]

<< Weird, I just got one and cannot insert them backwards. >>


Absolutely. Coz the notch on the DDR RAM would not fit w/ the notch on teh slot if u install it backwards !!.

 

[Wind]

basalt51,
Suggest tht u put the DDR RAM the way it should to avoid any future components damage. It may runs well...but definately not right to run the RAM backwards.

 

[basalt51]

Thanks for the replies.

Greg- do the memory slots on your board require you to guide the memory down a slot at the edges (not part of the white latch itself)? I am just trying to see if we have the same kind of slots.

Wind- Don't worry, I turned them around. The computer wouldn't function with them in backwards- in fact that is when they almost burned up from overheating.

I know that the sides of all sticks of memory have grooves that the latches connect to. They usually have two grooves on each side, one above the other. I'm not sure which of the groove the latches are supposed to "grab" (I haven't looked in my computer yet- I assume it would be the top set if my next theory is to hold true). Wind you're right, you can not seat the memory all the way into the slots with it in backwards. What I believe happened is the latches were able to latch on to the bottom set of grooves in the sides of the memory, thus providing what seemed like a secure and tight fit. I didn't discover the memory was in wrong until I got a flashlight and I could see the pins weren't even into the slots. Prior to that I had re-seated the memory several times and the as I pushed down the latches automatically came up and lined up with the grooves in the side of the memory perfectly.

In my experience, the latches don't even move until the memory actually makes contact with the bottom of the latch. The downward pressure on the latch forces the top of the latch into the grooves on the memory. But I'm not stating anything you don't already know.

Anyways- It all works now and I know nobody is going to believe it is possible. I know I made a dumb mistake, but I guaranty that the memory was in backwards and latched down. Properly-- NO-- then it would have worked, right?

Luckily no one else will have this problem.