I have posted previously about using PC3200 with a Celeron D 326, which didnt seem to work, but PC2700 did. This is my first built PC and its turning into a freaking nightmare. Anyway, heres an overview of the problem: Built a PC with Gigabyte 8I915ME-GL motherboard, Celeron D 326 LGA775, DVD-R, ATA HD, and a 512mb stick of PC3200. When I first put it together I got continuous beeps (which on the Award BIOS on this means theres a power error). I thought perhaps the RAM was the wrong speed so I put a 256mb PC2700 stick in there and everything seemed to work fine. Today I checked the BIOS and noticed that it would auto-detect RAM speed and it had 333mhz written there, so I put the 512mb stick back in along with the 256mb. Upon power-up I get continuous beeps again, so I remove the 512mb chip and it still beeps! I removed the 256mb and powered up and it does the long beep meaning theres no RAM. So I pull the CMOS battery out and wait 15 minutes, put it back in along with the 256mb, and it STILL BEEPS! AAARGH! I tried this process several times, tried different slots for the RAM, tried the 512mb and it still beeps on me. Whats going wrong!?!? this is driving me insane because my only other computer is a 200mhz piece of crap which takes a minute to load a web browser! Please help guys! Thanks
OMG first of all don't pull the CMOS battery OUT! you'll static it! = dead mobo! on your new motherboard you'll have a CMOS Jumper (3 pins coming out of the motherboard) two of which will be covered with a piece of plastic (a jumper), move the jumper so it is covering the other pin, wait 15 seconds and move it back. This will reset your CMOS. Removing the CMOS battery won't do anything, you need to reset the settings to default on the CMOS battery (you do this by doing the above). Try this, then run it wiht your 256mb piece in, if it works reboot it and add the 512mb piece, if it then beeps the 512mb is faulty. remove it, reset the bios settings by resetting the CMOS Jumper (as mentioned above) and start up. I would also try and reset the CMOS then boot with ur 256 into the bios and change the memory settings to Manual, make sure its set to 333 FSB (PC3200 will is backwards compatible with slower DDR speeds such as PC2100 (266Mhz) or PC2700 (333Mhz), make sure your memory timings are as so: CAS 3-4-4-8 2T. Your motherboard might be assigning the PC2700 lower latencies (faster memory timings) than the PC3200 can cope with. This would be true if u have good 256mb memory and some generic PC3200. If the 512mb still doesnt work, its faulty, reset the cmos and run with 256mb for the moment.
As i've already told you: Continuous beeps means bad RAM, incompatible RAM, or RAM not seated properly! :smash:
megamaced, both of the RAM sticks are functional as they work fine in a Dell machine. They work together or separate so its not a RAM issue. I cannot even get into the BIOS because the machine just beeps no matter which stick of RAM I have in there. Thanks
ProcalX, my motherboard has only two pins to reset the CMOS and I tried that first to no avail. Both the 512mb and 256mb are good chips because they work in a Dell machine perfectly. So, it still beeps now no matter which RAM I have in there. Any ideas?
