Newbie question

[Samtheman1k]

Hi all,

I have an ASUS A7V600 motherboard with an Athlon Barton 2500 CPU. I currently have PC2700 (2x256MB) and has been working fine up to date with a fsb of 166MHz, as selected automatically by the BIOS.

I have just purchased a 1 GB stick of PC3200 with the aim of running the fsb at 200MHz (obviously without the PC2700 installed...) and installed it into slot 1.

However, when I try to boot, the system just powers up and doesn nothing. Blank screen, no beep to say everything is ok. (if i install the memory into slots 2 or 3, I get continual beeping noises (persuming that it cant' find the memory).

I have tried this in a Dell P4 machine and the same thing happens.

Does this sound like the memory is dead?

Can you run PC3200 at 166MHz? (i.e. underclock it)

 

[Samtheman1k]

Hmm...that's what I'm thinking...

Another question...could have the PC3200 and the PC2700 in the same system? (running fsb at 166?)? I used to run combinations of PC100 & 133 without any probs, but never tried it with DDR...

 

[Samtheman1k]

OK, thanks. I've spoke to the supplier and have been advised to return it for exchange.

Thanks for the help.