very strange pc problem!!

OpenToSuggestions · 1 May 2008 at 18:27

A friend of mine has the DS3R (gigabyte) with the quadcore in it (the 1066fsb one). He had 1x1gb ram and aside from being slow, it worked. He upgrades to some ocz 2x2gb and his pci wireless no longer works and neither does his keyboard. Surely ram should have no effect on anything like this?! He tries his old ram and everything is fine again.....we have no idea what to do.

I have suggested updating his vista to SP1 and to update the bios if needed on his motherboard, any other suggestions??

TIA

EDIT: forgot to mention, I have vista and the normal DS3 and I also bought this ram and my pc is fine

davethe11 · 1 May 2008 at 19:01

don't know to be honest, but can only suggest trying one new stick of memory at a time and see if the problem is isolated to one stick. Could also try slowing down the new sticks too (change the divider) and see what happens. Sorry, I don't have vista and thats all I can come up with at the mo.

Vir · 1 May 2008 at 20:26

- Try resetting cmos (bios reset)
- Reinstall Vista (+Vista)
- Put his wireless card in another slot

Some thoughts. I think resetting cmos might work actually

OpenToSuggestions · 1 May 2008 at 22:42

he says it works with just one of the 2gb sticks. he is using dual channel when he uses 2x 2gb sticks. will get him to try them in non-dual channel slots and see what happens. thanks for the quick replies

Amnesia · 2 May 2008 at 03:54

try his ram in yours and yours in his..just to rule out faulty ram

thegoonden · 2 May 2008 at 05:07

Not sure it'll help in the long run, but are both the wifi and keyboard connected by USB?

It would at least mean you know that whatever's causing it, it's the USB controller that's suffering.
Could be power if that were the case.

Salsa · 2 May 2008 at 05:42

He is running vista 32bit?

I had the exact same problem when putting 4Gb into my machine when i was still on vista 32. My PCI Wireless Card would not work as the memory allocations set aside for them had been taken up by the extra RAM due to 32bit OS only being able to use 4Gb. It also affected my USB controllers so noe of my peripherals would work.

I never did find a work round tho other than upgrading to x64 sorry

MoRT489 · 2 May 2008 at 08:39

Try installing latest mobo drivers?