Kingston RAM not working!!!!

Hey yall! Wondering if someone can help me out. I ordered Some Kingston RAM and I put it in my MP and this weird screen came up. It started checking my RAM and said it detected an error. The company accidently sent me 2 RAM sticks (and didnt charge me twice, nice) and i loaded the other RAM stick in and got the same result. My aunt sent me 3 RAM stick from some random company and 2 outta the 3 worked just fine? I wa wondering if anyone else had this problem. I checked the specs on the RAM and they match up just fine.

Would appreciate any info.

Thanx yall, youve already been a help to me

- Curt

hereo wrote:Hey yall! Wondering if someone can help me out. I ordered Some Kingston RAM and I put it in my MP and this weird screen came up. It started checking my RAM and said it detected an error. The company accidently sent me 2 RAM sticks (and didnt charge me twice, nice) and i loaded the other RAM stick in and got the same result. My aunt sent me 3 RAM stick from some random company and 2 outta the 3 worked just fine? I wa wondering if anyone else had this problem. I checked the specs on the RAM and they match up just fine.

Would appreciate any info.

Thanx yall, youve already been a help to me

- Curt

Make sure the CL is correct on all of them.

yup, CL3. I cant figure it out?

if the specs are correct, is it possible that you installed it incorrectly? Did it click into place all the way?

Did you try a factory reset? Power on while holding the ERASE key I believe... although I'm not sure that will help, but it's worth a shot I guess.

I applied it like it showed me to in the video on youtube. It clicked into place and everything. I had a stick of 128 b4 and I put that in and it worked fine (I got 64 mb cause it only reads 1 side). I didnt do the factory reset, if we can confirm the correct way to do it, ill be sure to make that my next step. I tried the Kingston and it didnt work, than i put the 128 back in and it worked just fine again, than I put the random 256 RAM in and it worked judt fine too. I tried the Kingston again and it freaked out on me again, then I put the 256 of the random RAM back in and it booted right up and worked fine again. Ive tried the Kingston RAM like 4 times and have tried the random RAM even more times and the random RAM always works, but when I put the Kingston in the weird screen always comes up and tells me that I have an error with my Kingston RAM. Its soooo weird!

Please confirm the method for the factory reset.

Thank everyone for replying.

- Curt

I'm pretty sure it's power on while holding erase... it's not going to hurt anything if that's not it... if you want to confirm it go ahead, but I don't feel like looking it up since I'm pretty sure already, and it's not really my problem... heh. I didn't mean that in an a$$hole type of way, I'm just being real witcha. Let us know if it worked.

Fa sho, I understand. I'll try that right now.

Thanx man.

Tried it, same result. I'm done with it. I was just trying to figure it out incase othe people had the same problem. I'll use the random RAM i got. it seemed to be working. Thanx again yall to all your help. If anyone wants to keep troubleshooting, i'll keep trying til tomorrow when I send it back.


Thanx Guys

- Curt

Just make sure to post in the correct forum and the correct thread next time....
http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=26775.