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Hello, today I did a couple of upgrades to a SSF OEM stone PC and had a few issues. I wanted to upgrade the ram and add a secondary HDD.

Issue with the HDD:
The actually installation of the hard drive went well, it was a very tight fit but other than that it was fine. However, when I turned the PC on I noticed that although the hard disk was recognised by the BIOS, it wasn't recognised by windows, it didn't even show up at all. I've mucked about in the bios a bit but had no luck. I can't even reformat it, because it doesn't display it as being there in windows as I've said. I've also tried rebooting the PC, which didn't solve the issue and I've also tried resetting the CMOS, that didn't solve anything either.

The RAM:
Again, the intstall of the ram went well. However, when I came to boot the PC it didn't seem to want to POST. The power light came on, it began wurring, then no signal on monitor and 4 short BIOS beeps. (Which means bad memory.) The ram I'm adding is a 2GB DDR3 stick running at 1600MHz. The motherboard supports 4GB of 1600MHz DDR3 ram. The original RAM it came with is 2GB of DDR3 1600MHz RAM, I plan to keep this on the motherboard along with my upgraded stick. Again, like with the HDD, I rebooted the system, mucked about in the BIOS, reset the CMOS & I of course tried reseating the ram, all this didn't work. I should mention that removing the stick I added in the upgrade made the system boot & and just having the added stick on the board didn't work. I've also tried the stick I added in another PC and it worked OK. Can anyone help?


Cheers in advance,
Rob
 
Solution
Go into disk management and make the HDD a partition. If it's brand new, it shouldn't have one, so you need to make one.

Sometimes RAM doesn't like to work together. This is why you'll usually find people suggesting to buy all ram at once, not upgrade later. RAM sold in pairs has been tested to ensure that they work together.
Go into disk management and make the HDD a partition. If it's brand new, it shouldn't have one, so you need to make one.

Sometimes RAM doesn't like to work together. This is why you'll usually find people suggesting to buy all ram at once, not upgrade later. RAM sold in pairs has been tested to ensure that they work together.
 
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Thanks very much, HDD is formatted and running a treat and the ram issue was me being an idiot and not paying attention to the speed, which said 1066MHz NOT 1600MHz. Whoops.
 

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