Tom's Hardware > Forum > Motherboards & Memory > Memory > Please Help! RAM's fried and I need my computer

Please Help! RAM's fried and I need my computer

Forum Motherboards & Memory : Memory - Please Help! RAM's fried and I need my computer

Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions. Sign up now! Its free!
Ask the community Add a reply
Word :    Username :           
 
oron   11-12-2004 at 09:18:41 PM

I have an MSI K8N Neo Platinum board running two sticks of Corsair Valueselect 512mb DDR400. A freak videocard problem a while back fried the RAM making the system totally unstable and barely usable. I'm sending off the RAM to get replaced, but in the meantime my machine is dead (without RAM).

I was thinking I would just buy a 3rd stick for temporary use and then run 1.5gb's when i get my ram back, since my computer has 3 slots. But the corsair tech support guy said that my MSI wouldn't support 3 double-sided sticks (it would just read them as single sided) and that it would drop to DDR 333.

Is this true? Am I stuck? Any suggestions? It's going to be a week or more before I see that RAM and I really need access to my computer for work.

IDEAS???

Thanks!

-Olen

Add a reply
Sponsored Links
Register or log in to remove.
Crashman   11-13-2004 at 05:06:36 AM
- 0 +

Probably true, yes, I've seen several people complain of DDR333 forced when using 3 DIMMs.

<font color=blue>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to a hero as big as Crashman!</font color=blue>
<font color=red>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to an ego as large as Crashman's!</font color=red>

Reply to Crashman
Ask the community Add a reply
Tom's Hardware > Forum > Motherboards & Memory > Memory > Please Help! RAM's fried and I need my computer
Go to:

There are 500 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Forum map
Bestofmedia Forum ©
2000-2009 Bestofmedia Group
Page generated in 0.453 seconds
Please mind

You are about to answer a thread that has been inactive for more than 6 months.
If you still wish to proceed, please ensure that your posting is original and does not duplicate or overlap any prior responses to this thread.

Add a reply Cancel
Sponsored links
  • Ask the community now
  • Publish
Ad
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them