RAM Nnot working anymore after ugrading

[oussama1750]

Hey.

So a few days ago I decided that I want to upgrade my ram memory of my XPS Studio 8100. I've been using it quite a while and felt like the time had come. I don't know much about computers so I bought a 4GB ram with 1866mHz speed. I placed it in my PC and bam, since then my ram slots barely work. Out of the 4 slots, only one works and it can hold a maximum of 2GB to be able to fully boot up. I tried the 4GB ram, but it just restarts over and over. Anyone know a fix for this?

XPS Studio 8100
Intel Core i5-650 3.2ghz
4 slots which used to have 1gb;1gb;2gb;2gb so 6GB in total.
GTX 1050 4G windforce

 

[koenhaenen]

what kind of ram do you use, DDR3 or DDR4

 

[koenhaenen]

and what is the name of your motherboard

 

[oussama1750]

what kind of ram do you use, DDR3 or DDR4

Oh yeah I forgot. It's DDR3.

 

[koenhaenen]

so i did a 5 minute search, i found out that you need DDR3 RAM in your computer, if you bought DDR4 RAM this will indeed not work ( your motherboard does NOT support DDR4 RAM ). if you bought some random RAM it would be more likely DDR4, its more on the marked. ( newer and stuff )

 

[oussama1750]

And I think it's this: 'G3HR7 Desktop (DT) Motherboard'. Not good with PCs overall so correct me if something sounds fishy.

 

[oussama1750]

so i did a 5 minute search, i found out that you need DDR3 RAM in your computer, if you bought DDR4 RAM this will indeed not work ( your motherboard does NOT support DDR4 RAM ). if you bought some random RAM it would be more likely DDR4, its more on the marked. ( newer and stuff )

I did my research too and it's a DDR3 ram so it should work, but that's not only the point. My old RAM won't even work anymore except one slot out of the four. Is it possible that it got damaged?

 

[Corwin65]

Remove all the old RAM, install the new one only.

 

[koenhaenen]

so i did a 5 minute search, i found out that you need DDR3 RAM in your computer, if you bought DDR4 RAM this will indeed not work ( your motherboard does NOT support DDR4 RAM ). if you bought some random RAM it would be more likely DDR4, its more on the marked. ( newer and stuff )

I did my research too and it's a DDR3 ram so it should work, but that's not only the point. My old RAM won't even work anymore except one slot out of the four. Is it possible that it got damaged?

it is possible but i doubt it, are you sure you 'clicked' it in good ? you have to press fairly hard ( yes the motherboard will bend a little bit ) you need to hear a loud 'click"

 

[oussama1750]

Remove all the old RAM, install the new one only.

I did. I get a beep sound at slot #1, 2 and 4. At slot 3, my pc boots up a few seconds and then restarts in this forever loop.

 

[oussama1750]

it is possible but i doubt it, are you sure you 'clicked' it in good ? you have to press fairly hard ( yes the motherboard will bend a little bit ) you need to hear a loud 'click"

Yes, I'm pretty sure. I reseated and tried all slots out for 100 times and I can only get one to work.

 

[koenhaenen]

can you get into the BIOS ? if you can get into it try and search for 'load optimised bios' it worked with a friend of mine. you can find it in the 'advanced section' normally

 

[oussama1750]

can you get into the BIOS ? if you can get into it try and search for 'load optimised bios' it worked with a friend of mine. you can find it in the 'advanced section' normally

I can only use BIOS with the old RAM and I must say there aren't that much options for me to choose. Old version of BIOS maybe?

 

[oussama1750]

 

[koenhaenen]

have you installed all your RAM ( the full 6GB ) ?

 

[oussama1750]

have you installed all your RAM ( the full 6GB ) ?

Yes, but depending on the placement, sometimes I get a black screen when starting, sometiles I get a beep sound. When it works, the maximum I get is 2GB out of the 6GB inserted. It worked perfectly fine before. This is really frustrating.

 

[koenhaenen]

if you did intall all your ram, pres F9 ( load defaults )

 

[oussama1750]

if you did intall all your ram, pres F9 ( load defaults )

Crap. Now it stays black screen when installing all ram. It turns on, just stays black.

 

[oussama1750]

Ah I got it to turn back on. It only works in a specific order when all slots are used. It's now in 2gb:2gb:1gb:1gb and the BIOS says that only 1024 mb is installed.

 

[koenhaenen]

try, 2gb;1gb;2gb;1gb im out of ideas otherwise :/

 

[koenhaenen]

try linustechtips.com its a good forum for these things too, you will get an anwer really fast too!

 

[oussama1750]

try, 2gb;1gb;2gb;1gb im out of ideas otherwise :/

I did all options and yeah I'm lost too. Thanks for your help though. I really appreciate it.

 

[oussama1750]

Thanks for the tip. I'll surely try it out!