Installed new ram, monitor says no signal.

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Daxton_Budge

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I built a gaming PC but it only had 4gb of ram. I bought two 4gb sticks and the monitor said no signal, so I bought one 8gb stick of ram and had the same problem.

The 4gb sticks are both EM08 IBM PC3-8500 DDR3 ECC Memory Kit 78PO554.

The 8gb stick is an HP 500662-B21 8GB DDR3 SDRAM Server Memory.

I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the BIOS. These are my specs:

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860k

Motherboard: MSI A68HM-E33 V2

Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 1050

PSU: EVGA 400 Watt

I've already tried cleaning the ram and reseating them and it still shows no signal. Any help is appreciated.
 
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terry4536
First off, that motherboard uses dual channel memory. So you need a matched set of DDR3 memory for best result. I would try re-seating the memory sticks. Make sure they are firmly seated. It is possible that the memory is bad as well.

Also many motherboards specify non-ECC memory. I would check your motherboard manual. The memory isn't listed as compatible on the MSI website, but it doesn't say anything about being compatible with ECC memory either.
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First off, that motherboard uses dual channel memory. So you need a matched set of DDR3 memory for best result. I would try re-seating the memory sticks. Make sure they are firmly seated. It is possible that the memory is bad as well.

Also many motherboards specify non-ECC memory. I would check your motherboard manual. The memory isn't listed as compatible on the MSI website, but it doesn't say anything about being compatible with ECC memory either.
 
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