Problem with adding a new ram stick, help!

[imported_karen]

Hi everyone,
I'm having a problem with installing a new 512 mb corsair pc3200 stick of ram into my Soltek SL K8AN2E-GR motherboard. I had a 512 mb Kingston HyperX PC4000 stick in it before, and I wanted to upgrade to 1024 mb of ram. The problem is when I put them both in, my total physical memory is still only 512 mb. I know both of my ram slots work and both sticks work because I put them in 1 at a time and my computer worked. The weird thing is both of the sticks are detected by Nvidia ntune (they both show up in the DIMM list). Can anyone help?

 

[pkypkypky]

both sticks are non-ecc, right?

Make sure at the bios puts the memory to auto-detect the speeds. If that doesn't work, set the timings manually to the slower timings of the both sticks. Ultimately, I would suggest selling ur corsair stick and buying another pc4000 stick.

 

[imported_karen]

Originally posted by: pkypkypky
both sticks are non-ecc, right?

Make sure at the bios puts the memory to auto-detect the speeds. If that doesn't work, set the timings manually to the slower timings of the both sticks. Ultimately, I would suggest selling ur corsair stick and buying another pc4000 stick.

Yup they're both non-ecc... a friend of mine said you couldn't mix different speeds, so I guess I'm stuck with having to buy a new pc4000

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: karen

Originally posted by: pkypkypky
both sticks are non-ecc, right?

Make sure at the bios puts the memory to auto-detect the speeds. If that doesn't work, set the timings manually to the slower timings of the both sticks. Ultimately, I would suggest selling ur corsair stick and buying another pc4000 stick.

Yup they're both non-ecc... a friend of mine said you couldn't mix different speeds, so I guess I'm stuck with having to buy a new pc4000

I think the pc4000 should default to the slower RAM's speed in this case.

 

[pkypkypky]

I think it should be fine too but you might have to manually set the speeds like I said. Try auto and then do it manually.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: pkypkypky
I think it should be fine too but you might have to manually set the speeds like I said. Try auto and then do it manually.

Do that and report back.