rebooting with 2 sticks of ram

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my pc will not stop rebooting with 2 sticks of ram. I can put one stick in there and it will run just fine but when i put 2 sticks in jump back to the default bios setting and continiuosly turn off and on . I got my video card back now this happens. can someone help a newbie out. my frist gigabyte board. 8800 gts e6400, 2gigs of patriot ram 667. 500 watt ultra xfinity psu. everything worked before i rma my video card

 

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Well....one stick might be bad. Try running booting to a memtest-86 test and let it run for a loop or two. If they both pass at least one loop then it's probably not the ram.

 

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try clearing cmos if they are different brand or model.

 

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they are dual channel patriot 667 I will try to clear cmos

 

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res0r9lm said:

try clearing cmos if they are different brand or model.

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I did no go.

 

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Have you upped the voltage on the ram ?Try setting it too +.3.You do know about Ctrl+F1 ? You can also try looser timings. Like 5-5-5-15 just to get it up and running

 

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gigabit said:

Have you upped the voltage on the ram ?Try setting it too +.3.You do know about Ctrl+F1 ? You can also try looser timings. Like 5-5-5-15 just to get it up and running

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my timing is at 4-4-4-12 at default volts of 1.8 . I will just leave it in single mode its running ok I think

 

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stick in the new piece of ram with the old one not connected see if it still gives you that problem. do a bios update, and memtest it for 30min-1 hour.

 

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You just need more voltage on the ram thats your problem 2.1/2.2v.Plus you loose a lot of preformance with single channel

 

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it could be a power supply issue. you said you just got the 8800gts back. that thing draws alot of power no duh its gonna reset if it doesn't have enough power.