PC ram

[Shamonee]

Hi I showed my dad how to update the ram in his PC as it was running slow (had 2 x 512mb ram sticks) wrote down the type and showed him ones on Amazon, found 2 x 1GB ones.

Anyway he said he has got them fitted, when he boots up nothing,
He put the old ones back in as a temporary measure til I see him next but all he is getting now is 3 beeps, pause 3 beeps etc no boot

What can the problem be? I showed him how to take them out and fit them.

I assume the PC picks up the new ram as that's what I did when I updated my laptop ram???


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[Shady]

either a: that mobo cant handle any more than 1gb ram
or b: that rams knackered.
or c: its the wrong ram
whats the model of mobo? and what ram are you trying to put in?

[Shamonee]

Off the top of my head I can't remember, just copied the old one and put into Amazon.
Why is the old ram causing 3 beeps now? Has he not seated it correctly


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[Cod3waX]

yep probably not seated correctly

download the siw tool and run it on ur dads computer
(it self runs so no installing)

when u have siw running scroll down left hand side to HARDWARE and select MEMORY tab

let that load

when loaded the first tab should be MEMORY SUMMARY
and this will tell u how many slots u have
the maximum capacity for each slot
and the overall capacity for the board

[Shamonee]

Ok cheers, will get him to try it

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[R_J]

Sometimes the bios can get confused and may need to be reset, I've seen this happen on desktop motherboards when changing memory.