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Jul 2nd, 2009

Re: Memory Problems

Try removing the mains power cable from your pc, the whip the side off and remove the bios battery for about a minute. The bios battery will be a round, silver object with CR2032 printed on it.

Refit the battery before reconnecting the mains power and see if it will boot with the new ram.

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Re: Memory Problems

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Try removing the mains power cable from your pc, the whip the side off and remove the bios battery for about a minute. The bios battery will be a round, silver object with CR2032 printed on it.

Refit the battery before reconnecting the mains power and see if it will boot with the new ram.

Removing the CMOS battery will reset all of your BIOS settings to default and you will lose the time on your computer. This is a good way to do a manual BIOS reset. If the BIOS settings is the problem obviously! There are no capacitors hooked up directly to the battery so discharge should be instant, but waiting a couple minutes doesn't hurt, just in case.

CR2032 is the battery model. That is quite a generic one, but i'm sure there might be some weird motherboards out there that use something else. There is only one flat silver battery on your motherboard though, so it should be easy to spot. It looks like a watch battery - very flat, but about a cm in diameter.

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I've tried the memory in another machine and it works flawlessly.
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this would lead me to believe it is not a ECC issues ,unless other computer was a server or workstation ![my dell workstation take ecc memory ]

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I'll appreciate it if anyone can help me. I'm in the process of upgrading the RAM on a PcChips M861G Motherboard from (2)x 512Mb DDR 400 to (2)x 1Gb DDR 400. The manual indicates that this is the maximum it can handle, but when i install it ,the system doesn't even pass the post beep and the monitor remains blank. i don't even have the drivers cd either. Oh! the brand of memory before, and the new ones are Markvision.

I'm experiencing a similar problem with the the blank screen after the post beep... after installing 1GB memory from 128 MB memory. The company sent ECC cards when I ordered non-ECC. Of course, I noticed that AFTER installing. What did you wind up doing with your computer?

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