NF7-S Need Help Please

Leevis · 27 Aug 2010 at 10:49

Hi
I think i have some RAM issues on my old pc. It is an ABIT NF7-S v2.

I currently have 1 stick of 512 PC3200 in there (there was 2 but one does not work anymore).

Someone gave me 2 sticks of 2gb PC3200 but i dont think it can handle it as it just beeps and beeps and beeps on me so i think the motherboard does not like it that size.

Someone else has just given me some PC100, will this work or am i going to have to buy another 512 PC3200. I think that the PC100 is 128mb but not sure.

Anyone know if the 2gb is too much and whether PC100 will work in this motherboard?

Lee

septic · 27 Aug 2010 at 11:15

the mobo is ddr ram, pc100 wont workin in it. also according to google the limit of the board is 3gb so 2 sticks of 2gb wont work either, so try 1 stick of the 2gb ram and see if that works.

mp260767 · 27 Aug 2010 at 11:16

had a look on the abit site and they say it has 3 memory slots for a maximum of 3gb, so fair chance it doesnt like the 2gb sticks.

Leevis · 27 Aug 2010 at 11:30

Yeah tried the single stick of 2gb but it didnt like it

septic · 27 Aug 2010 at 21:42

maybe the sticks of 2gb are busted

ThomasTheTankEngine · 28 Aug 2010 at 00:22

Hey, I had an nf7-s. When that thing was new, nobody even made 2gb dimms. Most people were using 512's.... with the 1gb sticks being reserved for flash gits.

gamesaregood · 28 Aug 2010 at 02:12

Thats a DDR motherboard, are you sure you have 2GB DDR sticks? I didn't even know they made them...

septic · 28 Aug 2010 at 19:05

they make 2gb ddr, but perhaps the board cant take them. i had a nf-7 but ran 2 1gb sticks in it.

Amonlym · 28 Aug 2010 at 19:31

given how choosey the board is, even for 512mb sticks, id say your chances are slim. try raising the mcp voltage to the upper limit (1.7v) and ram voltage to ~2.9v, see if that helps.

also check and make sure they are DDR 1 sticks, and not DDR2. also check and see if they are ecc/registered - im not very confident that the board will take ecc reg.
you can always run 3*512 sticks if you buy a new pair of 512's since the dual channel mode doesnt really add anything