I assuming this is a mobo problem, but I could be wrong
I have a Soyo Dragon Lite kt333 (I know, it's old, I know it onlly supports pc1600, 2100, and 2700, three slots, up to three gigs). I just got hold of some more ram, kingston pc2700, memory works just fine all by itself in the first ram slot. I had two 256's in there before, in slot 1 & 2, they have worked fine for a couple years, I just wanted some more ram. I first ran into a problem when I put the 512 in the third slot-my system was only detecting 768Mb. So I fiddled with things-no matter how I arrange the three, I only get 768.
Here's the kicker-I put the 512 by itself in the third slot, and my computer hung after posting only 256. Putting one of the 256's in the slot yielded no bootup and a repeated bios beep (memory problem, right?) The only info Soyo has in their knowledge base is something about ram being measured at half it's value if it's the wrong kind yadda yadda yadda-this doesn't seem to be the problem to me. I just updated my bios in an attempt to fix the problem, but it looks to me like a hardware problem-something wrong with the third slot? Am I up the creek without a paddle here?
I have a Soyo Dragon Lite kt333 (I know, it's old, I know it onlly supports pc1600, 2100, and 2700, three slots, up to three gigs). I just got hold of some more ram, kingston pc2700, memory works just fine all by itself in the first ram slot. I had two 256's in there before, in slot 1 & 2, they have worked fine for a couple years, I just wanted some more ram. I first ran into a problem when I put the 512 in the third slot-my system was only detecting 768Mb. So I fiddled with things-no matter how I arrange the three, I only get 768.
Here's the kicker-I put the 512 by itself in the third slot, and my computer hung after posting only 256. Putting one of the 256's in the slot yielded no bootup and a repeated bios beep (memory problem, right?) The only info Soyo has in their knowledge base is something about ram being measured at half it's value if it's the wrong kind yadda yadda yadda-this doesn't seem to be the problem to me. I just updated my bios in an attempt to fix the problem, but it looks to me like a hardware problem-something wrong with the third slot? Am I up the creek without a paddle here?