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If I put in 2 Samsung PC2 5300 sticks in the motherboard I get an error beep code, however if I put in 2 PC2 5300 sticks each by 2 different manufactures( ie 1 stick is nanya and one is samsung), I dont get an error beep code. This is very unusual and I have never came across this in 10 years of PC repair. Anyone got any ideas?
 
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Yep, most likely one stick of ram has memory chips only populated on one side of its board.

Where as the other stick when you look at it will have memory chips on both sides of the board.

Some memory sticks can come in different sizes or capacity of memory block for each chip on the board.

And boards don`t like it, when mixed.
I suspect it`s the case even if the memory speed matches, and the latency timing values of each of the sticks. By the way the timing values are very important.
If it differs from one stick to another then it can be a problem.

What I think you may find is, it will depend on the order you put the memory stick in the slots also.

Also Voltage of each stick, must be the same.

Take a look. It may just be one dead stick of memory though.

I forgot to say Don`t forget to reset the bios back to factory defaults also.
As the auto detection of the last set of ram sticks being auto detected by the bios may still be stored.

And causing an error with the new memory based on prior settings stored in the bios and not being refreshed right by the bios
 
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The two samsung memory sticks are factory from dell, they worked fine till a month ago. So what Im saying is if both samsung sticks are in I get a beep code, however if I put one of the samsung sticks (either stick) in either slot and a different manufacture stick in one of the other slots it works fine. If I put two matched nanya sticks in it beeps but if I put a nanya and a mushkin in it works fine.
 
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The two samsung memory sticks are factory from dell, they worked fine till a month ago. So what Im saying is if both samsung sticks are in I get a beep code, however if I put one of the samsung sticks (either stick) in either slot and a different manufacture stick in one of the other slots it works fine. If I put two matched nanya sticks in it beeps but if I put a nanya and a mushkin in it works fine.
 
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