not posting or booting help!!!

[neil]

hi this is my 1st post and i hope you guys can help,mt pc was working fine till yesterday i fit another stick of ram and it didnt seem to be any faster so i took it back out now the pc will switch on but moniter wont come on and pc wont post nor boot all fans are working power light on
pc is an iqon with gigabyte 8s651mprz mobo,pent 4-2.66ghz processor can anyone shed some light,i have another pc doing the same and its getting very anoing cause its probably something stupid

[Gatto]

Hi neil,

The only thing that I can suggest is that your computer doesn't seem to think there is any ram in it! RAM will always make a computer run better, it may not be noticable, but you can never have too much. What type of RAM are you using? I'm assuming, with it being a P4, that you are using either DDR or DDR2, in which case you need to make sure that whatever ram you have in there is in the correct place as DDR technology requires 2 sticks of ram to make the most out of it.

G

[neil]

hi gatto
im using ddr pc2700/333 and its run fine for 3 months on 256mb,and fitting the new ram did slow it down to the extent i mayas well been on dial up,it is like you say the pc seems to think there no ram there but y,i spoke to a guy in a shop and he said id sparked the board but think he just wanted to sell me a new pc or something

[Gatto]

You say that it slowed the PC down that you may as well be on dialup. Is it the internet that it slowed down or the computer?

G

[RecT]

Did you check to make sure that you'd pushed the ram back into the slot with enough force that it clicked?

[neil]

apparently iv sparked the mobo so need a new one

[Gatto]

Yah, that'd do it!