RAM Help Please

[PC4Free]

So I decided to upgrade my old rig and give it to my brother for Christmas.

Now to the chronology of the ram:

Started off with 2x512mb sticks

Upgraded to a single 2gb stick.

The 2gb stick seems to have broken or stopped working a long time ago along with one of the 512mb sticks (few months)

So, this week i bought a 2x1gb Crucial kit off ebay. It arrived, fits and doesnt work :'( I cant see anything on the screen

I know its the RAM as the last working 512mb stick works in both ram slots.

I have tried resetting CMOS, but to no avail.

Any help will greatly appreciated and help save my gift to my bro

Cheers

 

[WarFox101]

First see if your motherboard supports the ram you have bought. Next try one stick at a time in each slot. you may have one bad stick. I don't know of anything else to try hope you get it running.

 

[tinytomlogan]

what mobo? try the other coloured slots to start with. but the trouble is with the older ddr2, sometimes you needed a basic stick of ram to get to bios and up the volts before fitting the other sticks.

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

Ebay?!! Thats ghastly!

Buy whatever ddr_ your board is, make sure you have everything in the right lane and puff the ram slots incase there's a dust bunny taken up residence.

 

[Stryker64]

Seems like DDR2, but I could be wrong