mach Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 I bought an Abit kv8-max3 and athlon 64 3000. I am using corsair value select VS512MB400 512mb, and it wont boot, won't even go into bios. I think it is a memory incompatibility issue or a defective motherboard. Any help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CandyKid Posted April 21, 2004 Share Posted April 21, 2004 Welcome to the forums, mach! Do you get any error messages/beeps, etc? What [i]does[/i] happen when you boot it? PLUR CK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mach Posted April 21, 2004 Author Share Posted April 21, 2004 I get a beep about every 5 seconds, and the debug led says 0.4. (a code thats not in the manual). The screen stays blank (monitor says 'no signal'). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CandyKid Posted April 21, 2004 Share Posted April 21, 2004 Have you got a friend's memory module that you can try in the board? That module you have should be compatable! On second thought, you could also try your VS module in their system to check it too! PLUR CK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mach Posted April 21, 2004 Author Share Posted April 21, 2004 Ok, so I lift the mobo out of the case so I can run it as a bare bones setup (cpu, video, and memory only). Still doesn't work with either of the Corsair modules. So I swap a kingston module from my other comp in and it works fine! I think to myself 'must be a bad corsair module'. But I decide to try it once more with the corsair and it works fine! I have no idea what was wrong (maybe memory wasn't correctly seated, but i took it out a couple of times) anyway, I really happy that it works now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted April 21, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted April 21, 2004 Probably so, but to make sure I would test the modules one at a time with [url]www.memtest86.com[/url] and they should be in slots 1-3 and set the Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mach Posted April 30, 2004 Author Share Posted April 30, 2004 Wow. Really appreaciate the fast responses here. Thanks a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted April 30, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted April 30, 2004 Please let me know if you have any problems! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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