MB was working great with 2 sticks of 256Mb RAM. It has 4 total memory slots and I tried to add 2 more sticks of 256Mb to bring me to 1GB total. The original sticks were in CH-A DIMM 0 and CH-B Dimm-0. I left them there and added the new sticks to the empty slots (power supply was switched off). The BIOS, byt eh way, was set to auto-detect the memory speed.
Original Memory = PC2100U, 256Mb, DDR, 266MHz, CL2.5 - DIMM is one sided with 8 memory chips.
New memory = PC2700, 256Mb, 333MHz, CL2.5 - DIMM is one sided with 4 memory chips. (Fry's did not have 266MHz in stock and said PC2700 is backward compatible with 266MHz)
Now the system will not boot and will not POST!
So I removed the new memory and now the original memory configuration won't boot or POST either!
What have I done to the system? Even if the new memory was incompatible somehow, shouldn't the BIOS simply detect what is now in the system and run like it did before?
Any idea how to get the system to boot or POST again? Apparently there is no way to reset this BIOS without a floppy disk and I don't have any way to write a floppy at the moment.
thanks for any input!
Original Memory = PC2100U, 256Mb, DDR, 266MHz, CL2.5 - DIMM is one sided with 8 memory chips.
New memory = PC2700, 256Mb, 333MHz, CL2.5 - DIMM is one sided with 4 memory chips. (Fry's did not have 266MHz in stock and said PC2700 is backward compatible with 266MHz)
Now the system will not boot and will not POST!
So I removed the new memory and now the original memory configuration won't boot or POST either!
What have I done to the system? Even if the new memory was incompatible somehow, shouldn't the BIOS simply detect what is now in the system and run like it did before?
Any idea how to get the system to boot or POST again? Apparently there is no way to reset this BIOS without a floppy disk and I don't have any way to write a floppy at the moment.
thanks for any input!