Hello I just purchased an Asrock G41m-S3 motherboard so that I can overclock my prebuilt pc I got from a friend for free. It has a q8300 and a AMD 4870.
I am now having trouble finding ram that works in the motherboard, since I noticed too late that this motherboard supports only ddr3 memory where as the old one has ddr2. I tried my friends' Hyper x Fury ddr3 1600 2x 4GB RAM and it just doesnt post. The fans spin at max but nothing else happens.
When no ram is installed it beeps 3 times, so I guess the motherboard isn't dead.
I found some info about single rank and dual rank memory and the Hyper X is single rank so maybe that's it?
Should I return the motherboard or should I try to find dual rank ram?
I am now having trouble finding ram that works in the motherboard, since I noticed too late that this motherboard supports only ddr3 memory where as the old one has ddr2. I tried my friends' Hyper x Fury ddr3 1600 2x 4GB RAM and it just doesnt post. The fans spin at max but nothing else happens.
When no ram is installed it beeps 3 times, so I guess the motherboard isn't dead.
I found some info about single rank and dual rank memory and the Hyper X is single rank so maybe that's it?
Should I return the motherboard or should I try to find dual rank ram?
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