Ram compatability

[Motion]

I posted about a week ago asking if I can put my 1866mhz stick of ram into my PC if it only supports up to 1333mhz. Well I tried it out and my pc started making a beeping noise when I tried turning it on. Any ideas why it’s doing that?

[Wormhole]

can you get into the bios?

[Motion]

3 minutes ago, Wormhole said:

can you get into the bios?

When I put the new ram in? No, it won’t even start up. Just makes a beeping noise and stays on a black screen

[Wormhole]

3 minutes ago, Motion said:

When I put the new ram in? No, it won’t even start up. Just makes a beeping noise and stays on a black screen

put the 1866 stick of ram in and get to the bios and match the frequency and timings as the 1333 stick, power off and install the 1333 ram. what are the timings for both sticks?

[Motion]

4 minutes ago, Wormhole said:

put the 1866 stick of ram in and get to the bios and match the frequency and timings as the 1333 stick, power off and install the 1333 ram. what are the timings for both sticks?

Am I able to get into the bios if the computer won’t startup? Also I don’t know what the timings are/is. Sorry, not too computer savvy

[Wormhole]

so it wont post with the 1866 stick?

 

try removing the cmos battery for a few seconds

[Motion]

Just now, Wormhole said:

so it wont post with the 1866 stick?

No, just makes the beeping noise

[Wormhole]

Just now, Motion said:

No, just makes the beeping noise

remove the cmos battery for a few seconds

[Tamesh16]

4 minutes ago, Motion said:

No, just makes the beeping noise

the beeping is to let you know the ram is incompatible, but i think if its not supported speed, its only a chance it will run at the max speed supported by your motherboard,  which i think is not the case here 

[Wormhole]

what model are both sticks of ram?

[Motion]

1 minute ago, Wormhole said:

remove the cmos battery for a few seconds

remove it, put it back in, then try putting the new ram in or keep my old ram in when starting it up?

 

[Wormhole]

Just now, Motion said:

remove it, put it back in, then try putting the new ram in or keep my old ram in when starting it up?

 

new ram

[Motion]

1 hour ago, Wormhole said:

new ram

So I did this, made the beeping noise again but only twice. The computer then proceeded to pull up the bios, checked how much memory it said was installed. 8gb memory @ 1333 mhz then I clicked save and exit. Computer then started and is running right now. Should I not worry about the beeping if it’s working right now? Or should I put my old ram back in

[Wormhole]

5 minutes ago, Motion said:

So I did this, made the beeping noise again but only twice. The computer then proceeded to pull up the bios, checked how much memory it said was installed. 8gb memory @ 1333 mhz then I clicked save and exit. Computer then started and is running right now. Should I not worry about the beeping if it’s working right now? Or should I put my old ram back in

if its running put the old ram in with the new ram, what does it say on the old ram it will look something like this e.g 15-15-15-35

[Motion]

10 minutes ago, Wormhole said:

if its running put the old ram in with the new ram, what does it say on the old ram it will look something like this e.g 15-15-15-35

where will it say that? also this computer is running win xp XD so the bios looks old af

[Wormhole]

should say on ram, what model are both sticks of ram so i can look it up, not sure about old bios layoutsyou may have to youtube the mobo bios layout if you cant fing DRAM Timings

[Motion]

3 minutes ago, Wormhole said:

should say on ram, what model are both sticks of ram so i can look it up, not sure about old bios layoutsyou may have to youtube the mobo bios layout if you cant fing DRAM Timings

The new one is the hyperX

 

the computer cane with 4 of the 2gb sticks

[Wormhole]

i cant find timings on the old ram which is what needs to be dialed in

[Wormhole]

its also saying the old ram is 1066MHz

[Motion]

1 minute ago, Wormhole said:

i cant find timings on the old ram which is what needs to be dialed in

So should i not be using my new ram without the old stuff in?

 

[Wormhole]

you can use the new ram but im not sure both will work

[Motion]

1 minute ago, Wormhole said:

you can use the new ram but im not sure both will work

ahh okay, I was just wanting to use the new ram and take out the old ram.

[Wormhole]

2 minutes ago, Motion said:

ahh okay, I was just wanting to use the new ram and take out the old ram.

oh yeah thats fine, my bad

[Motion]

Just now, Wormhole said:

oh yeah thats fine

Thank you, I really appreciate the help :D:D

[Wormhole]

1 minute ago, Motion said:

Thank you, I really appreciate the help :D:D

all good i though you wanted to mix them haha, sorry about that