ECS board, but isn't even listed on their site

[billyzaine]

I have an eMachines EL1852G-52w desktop, it came with 3gb ddr3 RAM (2gb+1gb). I started having problems booting up, it wouldn't boot, just a steady beep. hold power button, force off. try again, sometimes it would do this a couple times, but then usually would boot. then finally, it became an every time I touch the power button, beeeeeeeep, until I forced power off. When I pulled the 2gb stick out, it would work perfectly, but only if there was no more than 1gb in either slot. I say that because i "robbed" a stick from my grandmothers pc, (eMachines as well), and it worked as well a 1TB pc will on only 2gb of memory, I bought recently two 4gb kingston hyper x beast sticks (paired) but my computer will not boot with either of them in. apparently something will not allow me to have more than a gig a slot, and ECS does not even recognize my board on their site. G41T-AD v:1.0 chipset: Intel 2E30 rev3 AMIBIOS P01-B3. I've even bought a new processor, and a new board, none of which changes my situation. can someone please help?

 

[Legohouse]

I have an eMachines EL1852G-52w desktop, it came with 3gb ddr3 RAM (2gb+1gb). I started having problems booting up, it wouldn't boot, just a steady beep. hold power button, force off. try again, sometimes it would do this a couple times, but then usually would boot. then finally, it became an every time I touch the power button, beeeeeeeep, until I forced power off. When I pulled the 2gb stick out, it would work perfectly, but only if there was no more than 1gb in either slot. I say that because i "robbed" a stick from my grandmothers pc, (eMachines as well), and it worked as well a 1TB pc will on only 2gb of memory, I bought recently two 4gb kingston hyper x beast sticks (paired) but my computer will not boot with either of them in. apparently something will not allow me to have more than a gig a slot, and ECS does not even recognize my board on their site. G41T-AD v:1.0 chipset: Intel 2E30 rev3 AMIBIOS P01-B3. I've even bought a new processor, and a new board, none of which changes my situation. can someone please help?

Well, if you are testing the Kingston HyperX in the default motherboard then the kicker is that your system supports only upto 4GB using two 2GB modules. So 4GB modules are not compatible and will not work. So no surprise with that one. Btw, what is the motherboard model number of the new board you are talking about?

Proof - Official specs: http://support.gateway.com/emachines/desktop/2011/emachines/el/EL1852G/EL1852Gsp2.shtml

 

[billyzaine]

the new board is an exact replacement model thats how i found it. and the surprise, is that I just put them both in a system built with only 2gb (2x1gb), and surprise, the computer has 8gb of memory, completely different motherboard setup, specs, hard drive, processor all different, all beneath the one I cant get these stupid sticks to work in.

 

[billyzaine]

Ok i wasnt trying to come off seeming like a smartass, I am highly frustrated with this computer, I have spent so much money already and have not been able to get my computer back 100%. I went and looked at the spec sheet for the other pc, my old one actually, and the spec sheet says that the computer should handle no more than 4gb max. But I installed the beast sticks in the pc, first one, started it up, booted right up, new hardware detected, 4gb of system memory. shut down, installed the second stick it booted right up, and again, new hardware detected, bam 8gb system memory (7.75 gb available). By now Im pissed, this computer has half the hard drive, half the processor, half the computer in general, yet it will take the RAM and operate, like it has 8gb of RAM. I really dont believe the original 2gb stick had become corrupted, of course like a fool I believe I disposed of it, or if it is even in the BIOS, I have a new motherboard in it and it still does the same thing. why will it work in the other computer with less than comparable specs but not in mine? Is it possible, even the slightest, that it could actually be in the BMR or somewhere else on the hard drive? I had a BMR major malfunction just prior to this problem starting. It had practically disappeared, im guessing BMR lost to GRUB, but i managed to recover it, or at least i thought, uninstalled Ubuntu, going back to pure windows and thats when the failed boot issue began. Oh! I just remembered.....when I first read that the problem was likely a RAM malfunction, what I did was I took my RAM (a 2gb and 1 gb) out, installed it in my grandmothers, and it booted fine, thats why I bought a processor instead, the processor didnt solve the problem so i then bought a motherboard, still same problem, when I attempted to boot it with out the 2 gb it worked, I was so frustrated I think i threw it in the trash. but i do remember her computer still booting with the 2gb stick when mine wouldnt.