ram installation?

[pandybear0]

i got my new 512 ram in my pc and it connected very well. but the thing is my bios dont reonize it. what do i do to install ram? i dont think i need a driver for it and my pc says that it can hold up to 2 gigs of ram. i did have 512 ram altogather and now i want to install one 512 ram and the other is still the same. do you guys know how to fix this prob

there is no drivers for your ram. the bios should automatically detect it. what type of ram and motherboard do you have?

[pandybear0]

the kingston value ram 512 mb. and my motherboard is an intel i dont know the model number but i called the tech support and he said that my pc can handle it. but i noticed that the ram can go in on both sides could it be i need to turn it around or

is the memory pc 100,133,2100,2700 or so forth?

most motherboards have three slots for memory. which slot you plug the memory in really doesnt matter until you deal with dual memory banks.

which banks did you install the ram into? i would suggest you take out the orginal ram out and just install the newly bought ram and see if it is detected

[sKiT]

maybe he has a SDRAM and DDR RAM combo mainboard and is trying to use both? I tried inserting a DDR stick and a SDRAM stick into my combo Shuttle AK32 mainboard one time and it just wouldn't boot. Is it Windows just not recognizing your extra RAM? Does your RAM memory test(when you turn your PC on) display the correct amount? Get us your mainboard model number which should be on the manual and/or inked to the mainboard usually near the PCI slots.

[RedFury]

had a similar problem with a neighbors PC. Problem was the ram was high density, and her computer just couldn't handle high density ram. Had to get half the RAM ( from 256 to 128 )...same price.

Otherwise, I agree with everyone. We could serve you better if we knew if you had a dual RAM board like the ECS KS57A which has both Sdram and DDR.