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03-02-2012 , 03:45 AM

300zxrider

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I have a HP Pavilion a6230n with a M2N68-LA (Narra2) motherboard. I purchased four 2GB PC2-6400 DDR2 800Mhz RAM sticks that are suppose to be compatible with my motherboard. When I booted up the system after installation I heard 1-short beep followed by 1-long beep. This is suppose to be a code for memory problems according to this link I've tried multiple configurations with no success (two new sticks and two old, only two new sticks, etc.) As soon as I put all the old RAM sticks back the system boots up perfectly.

I have no clue how to fix this. Any advice would be appreciated.

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03-02-2012 , 04:43 AM

Freakin

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Were there 2 sticks or 4 sticks previously? What was the speed and timings of the old memory? A program like CPU-Z (cpuid.com) can tell you

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03-02-2012 , 05:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Freakin

Were there 2 sticks or 4 sticks previously? What was the speed and timings of the old memory? A program like CPU-Z (cpuid.com) can tell you

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03-02-2012 , 11:04 AM

Freakin

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Does it POST with just one new stick? I mean one stick total. No old sticks at all.

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03-02-2012 , 04:01 PM

attempto!

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have you overclocked your cpu or ram ?
you can try to set the bios back to the default values and see if it works.

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03-02-2012 , 07:22 PM

300zxrider

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Does it POST with just one new stick? I mean one stick total. No old sticks at all.

No, it won't boot with any combination of the new sticks. I can't remember 100% but I tried, 1, 2 in dual channel, other 2 in dual channel, and probably a few more combinations.

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have you overclocked your cpu or ram ?
you can try to set the bios back to the default values and see if it works.

Never overclocked. I read somewhere that I might need to update my BIOs to recognize the RAM. Any truth to this? If so, where would I go to download an update?

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