Comments | tedark1: Comp stomped?

tedark1

Comp stomped?

Feb 20, 2008 18:36

Ok, my computer needed a little extra loving to make it through the next year so I bought it 3 gigs of ram to start off with. I plan on getting a Dual Core to top off the upgrades. I have an MSI KT4AV MS-6712 motherboard and it is giving me trouble. It says in my manual of the little thing that it can handle the 3 gig. Hey they show up, and are ( Read more... )

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tedark1 February 22 2008, 19:20:21 UTC

Everything is fine until I put in that 3rd gig of ram. When I do the motherboard no longer sees the video card and gives me the same error message. I don't know what's up but I don't want to have wasted $50 on ram that I can't use.

bowtothecow February 22 2008, 18:01:04 UTC

This almost sounds like a power issue, but I can't imagine that ram would draw that much.

tedark1 February 22 2008, 19:21:56 UTC

I have no clue. When there are 2 gigs in everything runs fine, but when I put in that 3rd stick the motherboard no longer can register that the video card is there. I'm stumped and really pissed because if I can't use that last stick of ram I just wasted the money on it.

kawaii_nyako March 1 2008, 03:10:11 UTC

My bet is that Windows or your BIOS is trying to load your video card as another source of RAM. Since your the video comes back with only 2Gb loaded, that's about all I can think of.

kawaii_nyako March 1 2008, 03:10:43 UTC

Doh, Jess is logged in on my laptop. Anywho, this is Jon.