Morning All,
I usually consider myself reasonably PC literate, but this has got me totally stumped.
Given how cheap components are at the moment, I thought now was a good time to pick up some nice cheap Ram and storage. Ta-da! 8gb of ram and 1tb hard disk ordered and arrived for under £100 (which is decent in the UK - I know the rest of the world can get that for the price of a Happy Meal, but we can't).
Anyway, hard drive works fine, but upon inserting the Ram the system wont even POST. All I get is a continuous bleeping, which my motherboard manual reports as a power error, but its got to be the ram. I swapped back to the old ram and everything works fine.
Now obviously before ordering, I made sure my MoBo was up to spec. It can indeed handle 8gb of ram at 800mghz, which is what I've ordered. So what the hell is the problem I think. I jump onto the Gigabyte (my mobo manufacturer) website, look up the model and fine a list of approved ram suppliers. Now as it happens, the new Corsair Ram I've ordered isnt listed on there.
To be honest, I'd always considered these lists of approved Ram as BS, and that if your ram matched the spec of your mobo, you'd be ok whoever the manufacturer of the ram itself. However, I may have just proved myself a noob as I damn well cannot get this ram to even POST when the system is running.
Does anybody have any ideas, and telling me that I am a noob and approved ram is absolutely a factor is an acceptable answer.
As a little extra info, I am not running any overclocks, my mobo is set to automatically set the voltage on the ram (and in any case, I can't even get to bios with the new ram inserted). I'm also running Vista 64.
Any help much appreciated
I usually consider myself reasonably PC literate, but this has got me totally stumped.
Given how cheap components are at the moment, I thought now was a good time to pick up some nice cheap Ram and storage. Ta-da! 8gb of ram and 1tb hard disk ordered and arrived for under £100 (which is decent in the UK - I know the rest of the world can get that for the price of a Happy Meal, but we can't).
Anyway, hard drive works fine, but upon inserting the Ram the system wont even POST. All I get is a continuous bleeping, which my motherboard manual reports as a power error, but its got to be the ram. I swapped back to the old ram and everything works fine.
Now obviously before ordering, I made sure my MoBo was up to spec. It can indeed handle 8gb of ram at 800mghz, which is what I've ordered. So what the hell is the problem I think. I jump onto the Gigabyte (my mobo manufacturer) website, look up the model and fine a list of approved ram suppliers. Now as it happens, the new Corsair Ram I've ordered isnt listed on there.
To be honest, I'd always considered these lists of approved Ram as BS, and that if your ram matched the spec of your mobo, you'd be ok whoever the manufacturer of the ram itself. However, I may have just proved myself a noob as I damn well cannot get this ram to even POST when the system is running.
Does anybody have any ideas, and telling me that I am a noob and approved ram is absolutely a factor is an acceptable answer.
As a little extra info, I am not running any overclocks, my mobo is set to automatically set the voltage on the ram (and in any case, I can't even get to bios with the new ram inserted). I'm also running Vista 64.
Any help much appreciated
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