Hello all,
After my friends graphics card died in his "HP Pavillion A1777C" running Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit, I replaced it and upgraded the processor, memory, power supply and added 4 more usb ports via a pci card in an attempt to breath a little life into it. He's on a budget and needs to get another year or so out of it if possible.
As soon as the system is powered on I get angry beeping from the motherboard. Initially too fast and random to understand but turns into 1 long beep, then 1 short, repeating. The manual says this is a memory issue. I've tried all four, then three, two in dual channel, and lastly one. I've cleaned, reseated, etc. all with the same results. After replacing the original memory everything works fine. The MB specs show they are compatible but... not so much.
I've been in the bios but it's pretty limited and there doesn't seem to be anything I can change?!
Anybody have any ideas on how I might get the faster ram to work? Am I missing something? If there's no other option I could attempt to match the existing unnamed memory and simply add two more 1 GB sticks of the slower memory but it seems like a waste, don't you think?!
Cheers.
:: Micro-ATX Motherboard ::
ASUS P5LP-LE - Leonite-GL8E(HP/Compaq)
Northbridge: Intel 945G
Southbridge: ICH7DH
533 MHz, 800 MHz, 1066 MHz FSB
775 Socket
Upgrades: ($134 total)
from: Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8 GHz 800 MHz
to: Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66 GHz 1066 MHz ($55)
from: 2 x 1GB 240 pin DDR2 SDRAM DIMM PC2 4200 533 MHz
to: 4 x 1GB 240 pin DDR2 SDRAM DIMM PC2 5300 667 MHz ($39)
from: GeForce 7500LE 256 MB DDR2
to: GeForce GT 610 1 GB DDR3 ($40)
from: 200 W PSU
to: 400 W PSU (had it)
Added a 4 USB port PCI card (had it)
After my friends graphics card died in his "HP Pavillion A1777C" running Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit, I replaced it and upgraded the processor, memory, power supply and added 4 more usb ports via a pci card in an attempt to breath a little life into it. He's on a budget and needs to get another year or so out of it if possible.
As soon as the system is powered on I get angry beeping from the motherboard. Initially too fast and random to understand but turns into 1 long beep, then 1 short, repeating. The manual says this is a memory issue. I've tried all four, then three, two in dual channel, and lastly one. I've cleaned, reseated, etc. all with the same results. After replacing the original memory everything works fine. The MB specs show they are compatible but... not so much.
I've been in the bios but it's pretty limited and there doesn't seem to be anything I can change?!
Anybody have any ideas on how I might get the faster ram to work? Am I missing something? If there's no other option I could attempt to match the existing unnamed memory and simply add two more 1 GB sticks of the slower memory but it seems like a waste, don't you think?!
Cheers.
:: Micro-ATX Motherboard ::
ASUS P5LP-LE - Leonite-GL8E(HP/Compaq)
Northbridge: Intel 945G
Southbridge: ICH7DH
533 MHz, 800 MHz, 1066 MHz FSB
775 Socket
Upgrades: ($134 total)
from: Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8 GHz 800 MHz
to: Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66 GHz 1066 MHz ($55)
from: 2 x 1GB 240 pin DDR2 SDRAM DIMM PC2 4200 533 MHz
to: 4 x 1GB 240 pin DDR2 SDRAM DIMM PC2 5300 667 MHz ($39)
from: GeForce 7500LE 256 MB DDR2
to: GeForce GT 610 1 GB DDR3 ($40)
from: 200 W PSU
to: 400 W PSU (had it)
Added a 4 USB port PCI card (had it)
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