Ram Upgrade Problems

[kcm1582]

I'm completely confused on this one.

I built my computer ground up about a year and a half ago and it has been running well except for the occasional freeze up which I tracked down to most likely being a bad ram chip. I finally got around to ordering some new ram and when I installed it the computer wouldn't start unless the old chips were in the primary slots. I tried resetting the cmos and that didn't work. I went through the bios and it all seems in order and the new ram is being recognized but I don't know if it is being used.


old ram
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820146736
new ram
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231276
board
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130228&cm_re=770-c45-_-13-130-228-_-Product
processor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103650

 

[Loud Ranger]

I'm completely confused on this one.

I built my computer ground up about a year and a half ago and it has been running well except for the occasional freeze up which I tracked down to most likely being a bad ram chip. I finally got around to ordering some new ram and when I installed it the computer wouldn't start unless the old chips were in the primary slots. I tried resetting the cmos and that didn't work. I went through the bios and it all seems in order and the new ram is being recognized but I don't know if it is being used.


old ram
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820146736
new ram
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231276
board
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130228&cm_re=770-c45-_-13-130-228-_-Product
processor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103650

ive had the same problem where the computer wouldnt even post to the bios with new ram. Its always worked just resetting the cmos button on the board.

 

[kimcrwbr1]

Are you swapping like to like with the same size. You may need to flash the bios go to the website for your motherboard and search for the flash bios program. Copy it to a floppy disk or a CD set your bios to boot from the bios program either floppy or CD first and boot from that disk. Always be careful you have the correct bios program there may be upgrades available. GL

 

[kimcrwbr1]

M-flash allows you to flash from a USB port go to the MSI support page and check for the latest bios for your MB

 

[Jaymz9350]

Are you trying to use both at the same time? If so that can cause many problems. Some boards do not do well at all with mixing RAM of different types and you have different brands, timings and likely different chips on the RAM as well. If that's the case just try the new ones and if it's not the case just ignore me lol.

 

[AllanD]

Are you running a 64bit Operating system?

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[kcm1582]

I am running both sets together, but it wouldn't start on just the new ram, even after resetting the cmos.

Id like to try and avoid re flashing the bios. But if I have to I will.

Allen yes I am running Windows7 Pro 64 bit.

 

[Jaymz9350]

Try each of the new sticks in each RAM slot individually, it's possible you have a bad stick or they just might not like your board.

 

[kcm1582]

Possibly but the board is recognizing them, when I go to the system information it shows all 8 gigs.

 

[kimcrwbr1]

The only difference I see is the timing or cas-latency 9-9-9=24 or 7-7-7-21 whatever that means they are both un-buffered. hope you figure it out

 

[kcm1582]

Finally found enough time to figure this out. Had to go through every setting in the bios and found that it was manually set to the 9-9-9-24 timing, turned it to auto and its running perfectly. Go figure, knew I was missing something stupid. Thanks for the help.