ram creating startup problems

knuckles0135 · 8 Jan 2014 at 18:36

so my pc was running fine ever since i put in another stick of ram.

i used to run 4gb of ram (1 stick)

now i put in another stick of ram (the same as the other stick) and suddenly my pc does not start up properly.

i hit the power button and my fans start running but i get no display on my monitor, i sometimes have to turn it off and on pver 4 times to get it working and when it does start working the cpu fan spins faster and i can actually hear it ramp up.

i took out the stick of ram and my pc work fine suddenly

my question is what do i do and how do i solve this problem?

thanks in advance

stulid · 8 Jan 2014 at 18:38

What board is it?

Does it have four RAM slots, if so try the other channel pairing.

knuckles0135 · 8 Jan 2014 at 18:57

stulid said:
What board is it?

Does it have four RAM slots, if so try the other channel pairing.

it only have 2 slots for ram.

and the motherboard it the Gigabyte F2A75M-HD2

knuckles0135 · 8 Jan 2014 at 18:58

i mean when the computer turns on with the 2nd ram installed, windows detects it and everything works fine, its just when i boot up the pc is when i have the problem.

stulid · 8 Jan 2014 at 19:32

Flash the BIOS to the latest one on the Gigabyte site.

Use QFlash (within the BIOS) to do this.

knuckles0135 · 8 Jan 2014 at 20:37

stulid said:
Flash the BIOS to the latest one on the Gigabyte site.

Use QFlash (within the BIOS) to do this.

ive already flashed it to the latest one a while back.

knuckles0135 · 9 Jan 2014 at 19:10

bump. can anyone help me please? i have no idea what to do.

RJC · 9 Jan 2014 at 19:16

How does the PC perform with just the new ram stick in - you might of tried this already.

wazza300 · 9 Jan 2014 at 20:38

also is it a matched stick or similar spec/speed/timings ect to your original ram

as above you need to test with just the new stick in either slot one at a time,could be faulty ram module

knuckles0135 · 11 Jan 2014 at 23:51

RJC said:
How does the PC perform with just the new ram stick in - you might of tried this already.

works just as it should, no other problems.

knuckles0135 · 11 Jan 2014 at 23:51

wazza300 said:
also is it a matched stick or similar spec/speed/timings ect to your original ram

as above you need to test with just the new stick in either slot one at a time,could be faulty ram module

i have the exact same ram sticks.

im pretty sure the ram module works because my pc works fine when im using it the only problem i have is getting it to start up.