how do i fix it :P

[afss]

ok. I have a msi 845Gmax board with a celeron1.7. It has a 256 ddr 266 ram stick. Ram was on sale today so i bought another stick 256 ddr 333. The guy said as far as he knew it would work but it would only work at the lower speed 266.

So i came home and poped it in. tryed to fire up the puter and the fans spun and it stopped., tried again, same thing. So i figure wtf, i pull out the new ram stick. Now its dead... dead dead as in no fans no lights no whirring no nothing. I have checked the outlet and the power supply on the in and its getting proper supply. I have tried resating the original ram a few times (i never took it out in the first place but thought i may have bumped it). I have tried poping the cmos battery while the machine is unplugged for a few minutes, nothing seems to work.

I have a multi meter but am unsure of what parts to check to see where the current is making it to, or if that even matters. Any ideas as to what a cooked or knocked lose etc etc.

Scott

[Michael_Lambert]

Flash the CMOS... There is a jumper set on the board to reset the board back to the Factory defaults.. not sure where on your board it is.. if you have the manual it would be in there.,

Other than that.. What memory did you leave in. The new or the old ... Or have you tried them both again?

[afss]

I will try to find the jumper.. and of course i can find ever other freaking book on ever other motherboard and piece of computer equipment i owned back to my old 486 except this.

I have only tried the old memory.

was the guy right in saying that it should be ok to run the 2 of them and it will just slow the fater one down? I seem to remember this being the case with old old ram like from the 486 era, but not too sure about these things these days

[Michael_Lambert]

http://220.228.160.176/support/mnu_exe/mbd_mnu/E6580v1.0.exe

Your manual Sir :D

As for mixing the ram, i have never had issues doing it..

[afss]

thanks mike

i think i am going to try a new power suply tomorrow as i took the qire that supposed to supply 12v to my chip and it was dead with one probe in a ground and testing both that were supposed to be 12v

I assume this woudl be DC

[aesop]

As long as there is a load on the power supply (just hook up one of the connectors to the Hard drive). then it should supply power. I don't know if this has changed recently???

If your not getting anything at all then odds are its the powersupply.

Make sure all the cards are seated properly. (push them all down). and anything that could've come loose.

and yes the ram should step down to the slower speed.

HTH