Re: What memory to use?

do you get any beeps whatsoever without the memory installed?

Are you positive the memory is good?
Are you positive the cpu is good?
Did you buy buffered or unbuffered memory?

if your computer beeps without the memory installed, then try installing the
memory a stick at a time. Try one stick, turn the machine on and listen for
the beep.
Then turn it off, take the stick out and try the other in the exact same
slot. Next repeat for the opposite slot, and then try both modules
together.

If it still does not work--you should contact the m/b technical support line
and ask them if the m/b can handle the memory that you bought--just give
then the memory specs. Personally I hate dealing with manufacturers tech
support because most of them have absolutely no idea what they are doing.

Anyway, short of that you can attempt to stick a POST Diagnostic card into
an open PCI slot and see if you get any errors.




"st" <> wrote in message
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> Hello There:
>
> I am enjoying putting a computer together and facing the
> challenges, here is my question:
>
> I just got PCCHIPS "M851G V1.5" motherboard w/a 462 socket, an AMD CPU
> 2200+266 ATHLON XP and two modules of memory of Viking DDRAM 256 mb 32 X
64
> (PC2100).
> In the website where I got the motherboard it says that the motherboard
> supports DDR 333/266 Max 2GB Ram, but in the manual says it supports DDR
> 400/333 memory.
> I haven't been able to make it work, the fan runs but I get nothing in the
> screen, since PC2100 would be for a 266 Ram, would I need a different
> memory to make it work?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> st.
>
>

me