- Jun 13, 2008
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My rig specs are in my sig.
I decided to get some more memory today, so I bought 2 more 2 gig sticks today, and for some reason they will not work.
The two new sticks are 240 pin DDR2 5300 ram by Patriot Memory.
When I stick in the two new sticks, and turn on the machine, it begins a loop where it starts up, fans start to spin, lights come on, but before anything comes up on the screen, or the BIOS appears, it all shuts down (sort of like when a computer overheats. It' just flat out goes dark) Barely a second later it tries to start up again.
The fans seem a little slow to start. I have a feeling that maybe it's requiring too much power to start or something?
Also there are 4 phase LEDs that are lit up when this happens. A quick google and it seems that other people have had the exact same problem with other Gigabyte mobos. I can't seem to find a reason in that thread though, but there were some temp workarounds I'm going to try in a minute.
Any suggestions on what the problem might be or how to fix it?
I decided to get some more memory today, so I bought 2 more 2 gig sticks today, and for some reason they will not work.
The two new sticks are 240 pin DDR2 5300 ram by Patriot Memory.
When I stick in the two new sticks, and turn on the machine, it begins a loop where it starts up, fans start to spin, lights come on, but before anything comes up on the screen, or the BIOS appears, it all shuts down (sort of like when a computer overheats. It' just flat out goes dark) Barely a second later it tries to start up again.
The fans seem a little slow to start. I have a feeling that maybe it's requiring too much power to start or something?
Also there are 4 phase LEDs that are lit up when this happens. A quick google and it seems that other people have had the exact same problem with other Gigabyte mobos. I can't seem to find a reason in that thread though, but there were some temp workarounds I'm going to try in a minute.
Any suggestions on what the problem might be or how to fix it?
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