I purchased a memory set to upgrade my old PC from 1GB to 2GB and now am getting a strange error. Here is the RAM i purchased.
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16820144114
My current PC MoBo is an old ASUS P4S800D-X w/ a Pentium 4-3GHz. I'm currently running Windows 2000 (auto update enabled) on this PC. Previously, the PC had 2-512MB DDR 3200 (for a total of 1 Gig) in the blue DDR slots. The new RAM has been put in the black slots.
After I installed the new RAM, the PC would not POST, and gave off several beeps. Reset did not help. However, doing a full power off of the PSU, then turning the PC back on, allowed the PC to POST.
However, during POST, I get a MoBo error message saying "Overclocking failed". I have never OC'ed this board on purpose, and pretty much have relied on default settings. I'm giving the option of F1 - SETUP, F2 - Load Default Settings and continue. After mucking around w/ the setup and not knowing what to do, I went to "F2". Strangely, the PC now will fully boot, run properly (tested web surfing, a quick game, etc) and seems to register the 2 gigs of RAM under System Properties.
HOWEVER... once I do a Restart, the PC once again will not POST. I have to do another PSU power cycle, then again, I get the message "Overclocking failed". Doing the "F2" option again, will bring the PC back up and again, seems to run stable.
Has anyone seen anything like this? Any suggestions? Turning the PSU off and on doesn't seem like a good idea going forward.
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16820144114
My current PC MoBo is an old ASUS P4S800D-X w/ a Pentium 4-3GHz. I'm currently running Windows 2000 (auto update enabled) on this PC. Previously, the PC had 2-512MB DDR 3200 (for a total of 1 Gig) in the blue DDR slots. The new RAM has been put in the black slots.
After I installed the new RAM, the PC would not POST, and gave off several beeps. Reset did not help. However, doing a full power off of the PSU, then turning the PC back on, allowed the PC to POST.
However, during POST, I get a MoBo error message saying "Overclocking failed". I have never OC'ed this board on purpose, and pretty much have relied on default settings. I'm giving the option of F1 - SETUP, F2 - Load Default Settings and continue. After mucking around w/ the setup and not knowing what to do, I went to "F2". Strangely, the PC now will fully boot, run properly (tested web surfing, a quick game, etc) and seems to register the 2 gigs of RAM under System Properties.
HOWEVER... once I do a Restart, the PC once again will not POST. I have to do another PSU power cycle, then again, I get the message "Overclocking failed". Doing the "F2" option again, will bring the PC back up and again, seems to run stable.
Has anyone seen anything like this? Any suggestions? Turning the PSU off and on doesn't seem like a good idea going forward.