02-05-2005, 03:17 PM
The processor should have nothing to do with the RAM, that communication is all handled by the chipset on the motherboard.
If you want to mail order and you want a garuntee that it will work get it from Crucial.com, though I don't know about shipping outside the US with them. I've linked the Giga-Byte GA8PE800-L just to see.
I didn't look, but some motherboards are picky about how you populate the slots. Some of them only read the spd info off the memory in one slot and assume that the rest of the memory is that speed. Some memory controllers can't read higher density modules (the whole 32x8, etc stuff).
Put the working memory in the system, go into the BIOS and make sure that memory detection by SPD is shut off (as has already been mentioned). Force the memory timings to a lower setting. I've had to do that on several boards when putting a higher rated speed module in there.
Have you tried with just the new memory in there without the old module? If that works it is even more likely that the new memory is running at a higher speed than the old memory can handle based on spd information and you need to tell the BIOS to not do that. Your motherboard already runs the memory and CPU clocks asynchronously, I haven't looked to see just how high of a memory clock it will allow, but it is possible that with the new stuff in there you are overclocking the old stuff.
Memory can be buffered or unbuffered, ECC or non ECC, registered or unregistered. If your board requires registered memory and you put unregistered in, it won't work. If it requires buffered and you put unbuffered in it won't work. So yes that is important information.
If you want to mail order and you want a garuntee that it will work get it from Crucial.com, though I don't know about shipping outside the US with them. I've linked the Giga-Byte GA8PE800-L just to see.
I didn't look, but some motherboards are picky about how you populate the slots. Some of them only read the spd info off the memory in one slot and assume that the rest of the memory is that speed. Some memory controllers can't read higher density modules (the whole 32x8, etc stuff).
Put the working memory in the system, go into the BIOS and make sure that memory detection by SPD is shut off (as has already been mentioned). Force the memory timings to a lower setting. I've had to do that on several boards when putting a higher rated speed module in there.
Have you tried with just the new memory in there without the old module? If that works it is even more likely that the new memory is running at a higher speed than the old memory can handle based on spd information and you need to tell the BIOS to not do that. Your motherboard already runs the memory and CPU clocks asynchronously, I haven't looked to see just how high of a memory clock it will allow, but it is possible that with the new stuff in there you are overclocking the old stuff.
Memory can be buffered or unbuffered, ECC or non ECC, registered or unregistered. If your board requires registered memory and you put unregistered in, it won't work. If it requires buffered and you put unbuffered in it won't work. So yes that is important information.
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.