Hi guys, im sorry if this has been brought up before, but i was just trying to upgrade my PCs RAM. I ordered some new 512K RAM from ebay and when i plugged it in and restarted my computer, i got continuous beeps and nothing comes up on monitor. I tried removing the new ram and plugging in my old ram (which previously worked), but same problem. Ive tried using all of the 3 slots but no use. I tried using my old ram in a different PC and it works. I did some research and the beeps i get are 1 beep immediately after start, and then 3 continuous short beeps. I read on another forum that it means "Beeps 1-3-3-3 2A Clear 512K base RAM!" After some investigation i found out that the RAM i got from ebay is DDR2 RAM while the RAM i previously had was DDR. So maybe by plugging in wrong RAM in wrong DIMM has caused this, and messed my system up. Have i messed up my RAM slots ?? Does anyone know anything about this or how i can rectify it. Any help would be greately appreciated. Regards, Sunny
yea pluggin in the wrong ram is whats caused it. this could have possibly damaged the board because each series of ram ddr1, ddr2, ddr3 are specif to each motherboard but you do get the odd motherboard that does support two types of ram e.g. ddr2 & ddr3. I presume your board only supports ddr and since you've installed the wrong ram could have caused damage to the board. but still im not entirely sure, its just a theory.
