HELP NEEDED, for RAM upgrade problems

I have an ASUS A7N8 Deluxe mobo with 1gb of ram in 3 sticks pc2700, trying to upgrade to 2 sticks of 1gb pc3200 and its failing the memory test everytime. Any Ideas? Or is my new ram duff?

Whenyou say failing memtest, is that the program memtest, or the machine doing it's initail counting of *** ram?

have you tried one stick at a time ? what happens?

It keeps failing the startup memory test, according to my mobo's manual, its failing to detect. I updated the bios and upped the frequency of the memory to 400mhz, what else can I do? Or should I get the memory replaced?

Are you sure by upping the memory speed you havent upped your fsb? leave the memory speed to auto.

Tried both settings, and the reference voltage

do you get a system failed memory test voice message at boot, and then the pc boots up fine if you do its a bug not a problem with your memory, i would get this all the time on my old A7N8

Chabsy said:

do you get a system failed memory test voice message at boot, and then the pc boots up fine if you do its a bug not a problem with your memory, i would get this all the time on my old A7N8

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No I get the long beep on a loop and then nothing

you sure the RAM is seated properly?

I have one of these mobos, and the RAM is a right bugger to put in all the way. you checked that?

Yup, done that too