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mmk92   09-23-2009 at 10:19:21 PM

Hi there fellow tom boys(c wat i did thar?) I am facing a bizare case of gigabyte's famous hardware rejection. I just bought 2x2gb ddr2 rams for $70, after attaching them into my mobo, only one of them is read, and the total memory is read as 2gb when it should be 4gb.

My mobo is a 945GCM-S2L


Halp plez mestar?!?!?! :hello:

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jsc   09-23-2009 at 10:33:51 PM

Test each one separately to make sure they both work.

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mmk92   09-23-2009 at 10:40:49 PM

I did, tested each one alone, then both together with inverse order, all the readings FROM THE BIOS give me 2gb of ram at first.

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SystemPat   09-23-2009 at 11:00:08 PM

What make and model of RAM are they?
Also make sure (consult the manual for your motherboard) which slots to put the RAM sticks in. I'm assuming you have 4 slots for RAM. The boards can be fussy on the slots to use.

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mmk92   09-23-2009 at 11:04:35 PM

They're both 2gb 400Mhz DDR2 elixir rams, and I have 2 slots of ram lol, so this wont be a problem for me i guess

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morfinel   09-23-2009 at 11:16:41 PM

what windows you have ? beacouse xp 32 bit only support less then 3 GB, how much ram is in Bios ? or go to start, run and type dxdiag to see all info

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Bronze Motherboards badge bilbat   09-24-2009 at 02:10:56 AM

Well, I took a look at the BIOS revs for your MOBO, (here:)
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support [...] uctID=2669
and none of them lists any specific problems with RAM (although GB has never been known for being particularly astute about maintaining accuracy in changelogs...); have you done the obligatory "Load Optimized Defaults" from the BIOS since you installed it? This is a required step - one of the things it does is reads the SPDs off the RAM, and sets all the myriad 'auto' parameters in the CMOS to accomodate it...

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roonj   09-28-2009 at 03:42:42 AM

manually set the voltage for ram, or use EPP settings if availage both for clock and power/voltage of ram

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Bronze Motherboards badge bilbat   09-28-2009 at 04:43:29 PM

Having trouble finding Elixir 2G modules - can you post a part number? Found this snazzy little thing:
http://www.elixir-memory.com/downl [...] re_Eng.pdf
but, unfortunately, it's a bit light on actually useable information!

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