Bought some second hand ddr2 memory, 2 sticks. Testing one stick at a time, the pc just has real problems even going into bios, it hangs, pc resets, its just not having it. It sometimes goes into bios and sees the new ram, but never fully boots up the pc. Works fine as soon as i put the old ram back in.
Resetting cmos does not do much either.
Also updated bios just in case.
I have no other ddr2 pc to test them on.
Is it likely they are both duff (although motherboard website says they are compatible.)
I see i can run memtest from usb, will this work if pc can't even boot properly?
Nobody i know uses ddr2 anymore, anything else i can do?
Resetting cmos does not do much either.
Also updated bios just in case.
I have no other ddr2 pc to test them on.
Is it likely they are both duff (although motherboard website says they are compatible.)
I see i can run memtest from usb, will this work if pc can't even boot properly?
Nobody i know uses ddr2 anymore, anything else i can do?