I am building an older system for my mother's general/light gaming use. I bought an
ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 motherboard off of Ebay. I have several sticks of both ECC and Non-ECC
PC3200 DDR 400 RAM. In Single-Channel Mode(1 stick in the first blue slot and the
other in the first black slot), I get 2Gb in single channel mode. However, if I try to add
ANY of the other RAM sticks(compatability mode is enabled in the BIOS) in the other
slots, it will not boot. No error beeps, no video post. Nada. I am currently installing a
copy of Windows 7 x86 with hopes to finding a solution later to upgrade to a 64-bit
version. But barring that, any suggestions? I'd rather put a 64 bit OS on here and run
4x1Gb RAM to give my mother the best pc experience I can get out of this machine.
If I have to stick with 32-bit and 2Gb, so be it, but it's disappointing... Here are the specs
of what I'm working with:
Mobo: ASRock 939Dual-SATA2. BIOS revision - P2.30(current revision)
Processor: AMD Opteron 180 Dual-Core @ 2.4Ghz.
RAM: 2x1Gb Patriot PC3200 CL3.
Video: Nvidia GeForce GT640 1Gb DDR5(VGA output through DVI converter at the moment,
but intend to run HDMI to her LED T.V. later.)
SSD: SanDisk Ultra Plus 128Gb via the red SATA II port.
HDD: Pending, but will be a white label 1Tb HDD 7200RPM 64Mb cache SATA I drive.
Sound: Onboard.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
(And no, telling me to buy a new system is not only not an option, but unappreciated. I want to fix -this- one.)
Thank you in advance.
Regards,
-Averant
ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 motherboard off of Ebay. I have several sticks of both ECC and Non-ECC
PC3200 DDR 400 RAM. In Single-Channel Mode(1 stick in the first blue slot and the
other in the first black slot), I get 2Gb in single channel mode. However, if I try to add
ANY of the other RAM sticks(compatability mode is enabled in the BIOS) in the other
slots, it will not boot. No error beeps, no video post. Nada. I am currently installing a
copy of Windows 7 x86 with hopes to finding a solution later to upgrade to a 64-bit
version. But barring that, any suggestions? I'd rather put a 64 bit OS on here and run
4x1Gb RAM to give my mother the best pc experience I can get out of this machine.
If I have to stick with 32-bit and 2Gb, so be it, but it's disappointing... Here are the specs
of what I'm working with:
Mobo: ASRock 939Dual-SATA2. BIOS revision - P2.30(current revision)
Processor: AMD Opteron 180 Dual-Core @ 2.4Ghz.
RAM: 2x1Gb Patriot PC3200 CL3.
Video: Nvidia GeForce GT640 1Gb DDR5(VGA output through DVI converter at the moment,
but intend to run HDMI to her LED T.V. later.)
SSD: SanDisk Ultra Plus 128Gb via the red SATA II port.
HDD: Pending, but will be a white label 1Tb HDD 7200RPM 64Mb cache SATA I drive.
Sound: Onboard.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
(And no, telling me to buy a new system is not only not an option, but unappreciated. I want to fix -this- one.)
Thank you in advance.
Regards,
-Averant
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