Restricted to 4gb RAM in socket 775 system

Kurgen

Kurgen

Kurgen

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I have an old PC, which just want to put the max ram in. Current spec is

Foxconn G41MXE MATX Motherboard
Q6600 Core 2 Quad CPU
2x2GB Corsair XMS3 1333mhz DDR3

Everywhere i search says its supports 8gb RAM, i even tried Crucial memory scanner which says it supports 8gb.

I have tried 2x4gb of Corsair Vengeance 1600 , 2x4gb HyperX 1600, 2x4gb HyperX blue 1333

It wont boot as far as bios, no beeps just blank screen and max fans, this is the same a single or both module.

Its not a real big issue, i just use this PC for retro bits and bobs. but i just wanted it maxed out.. any ideas?

is it a BIOS issue, need latest for larger memories. I think this might be hard with this board im sure it would need some kind of win98 boot floppy for a bios flash
 
Yeah, seems 4GB is your limit.

Crucial is not infallible- I ordered some ram for a mate's laptop a while back. Crucial checker told me I needed 1600MHz. Got it, wouldn't boot. Turns out it's 1066MHz...

EDIT okay found another site which states maximum of 8GB. Possibly ignore this post.
 
there are videos on you tube with people with 8gb, no i didnt try that... ive been searching for the latest bios, but just goes to spam sites
 
I give up, its just a badly supported motherboard. I imagine its actually been pulled from another branded PC as an OEM board. The latest board with a floppy , IDE, controller that takes more than 4gb ram is either AM3+ and people seem to charge a lot for the 6core CPU, or socket 1366 and thats the reverse CPU cheap , motherboards RIP off.
 
Kurgen said:
I give up, its just a badly supported motherboard. I imagine its actually been pulled from another branded PC as an OEM board. The latest board with a floppy , IDE, controller that takes more than 4gb ram is either AM3+ and people seem to charge a lot for the 6core CPU, or socket 1366 and thats the reverse CPU cheap , motherboards RIP off.
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First gen core like Asus P7H55-M have IDE, but they're picky about memory when going past 4GB (seems to be the size of the memory chips that's the issue). There are some 2nd/3rd gen boards with IDE too, like DQ67OW and ASRock ones.

I think you can buy a PCI-E expansion card, but from what I read, they have problems if used for a boot drive.
 
Tetras said:
First gen core like Asus P7H55-M have IDE, but they're picky about memory when going past 4GB (seems to be the size of the memory chips that's the issue). There are some 2nd/3rd gen boards with IDE too, like DQ67OW and ASRock ones.

I think you can buy a PCI-E expansion card, but from what I read, they have problems if used for a boot drive.
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yes but they dont have a floppy controller, now of course i dont really need any of this stuff working, but i think its quite nerdy have a 5.25" floppy, IDE DVD, IDE Iomega Zip, thats all fully working in windows 10. I even have the GTX260 dual output with one Svideo going to a CRT TV



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problem with foxconn they dont have a conusmer website, so you can never find any support, if it was asus or gigbyte would have been sorted.
 
Tetras said:
First gen core like Asus P7H55-M have IDE, but they're picky about memory when going past 4GB (seems to be the size of the memory chips that's the issue). There are some 2nd/3rd gen boards with IDE too, like DQ67OW and ASRock ones.

I think you can buy a PCI-E expansion card, but from what I read, they have problems if used for a boot drive.
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I know my old p7p55-M needed low density memory to be able to run 2 4gb dimms and get the full 8gb showing.

So 4gb dimms with 16x256mb memory chips on to get the full 8gb as the high density 512/8 wouldn't recognize more than 4gb.

Kurgen said:
I have tried 2x4gb of Corsair Vengeance 1600 , 2x4gb HyperX 1600, 2x4gb HyperX blue 1333
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Do these have 16 memory chips on?
 
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Joxeon said:
I know my old p7p55-M needed low density memory to be able to run 2 4gb dimms and get the full 8gb showing.

So 4gb dimms with 16x256mb memory chips on to get the full 8gb as the high density 512/8 wouldn't recognize more than 4gb.



Do these have 16 memory chips on?
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dunno they have heatsinks on
 
turbot1984 said:
They used to put Foxconns in cheapo Acer pc's ... load of cr*p really
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foxconn make boards for loads of other companies like microsoft sony apple amazon nokia nintendo etc they arent a micky mouse company

the boards in pre built pcs do what they are supposed to do and nothing more or less than that. :)

According to wiki As of 2012, Foxconn factories manufactured an estimated 40% of all consumer electronics sold worldwide. :o

you might be able to find another board that is compatible cheaply on ebay or somewhere like that ! facebook gumtree etc ! :)
 
I have a spare i7 CPU , and i did buy one of these but it was faulty Gigabyte GA-P55-US3L .. them seem to be like rocking horse poop
 
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