DDR 3 Memory problem, with 4 GB single RAM module.

[topgear]

3.25GB / 4GB ram is good enough for most people and most of them don't notice any "SLOW" effect - 8Gb ram won't make things quicker unless you have proper apps which can use all those amount of ram and to use all those 8GB ram just use win7 x64.

Sometime mobos have compatibility issue with certain memory chips and this is the reason why Transcend 4GB ram is not working with your mobo but Hyundai Electronics / Hynix ram is working ... most of the time issues like this can be solved with a bios update easily

 

[chetan.g]

3.25GB / 4GB ram is good enough for most people and most of them don't notice any "SLOW" effect - 8Gb ram won't make things quicker unless you have proper apps which can use all those amount of ram and to use all those 8GB ram just use win7 x64.

Sometime mobos have compatibility issue with certain memory chips and this is the reason why Transcend 4GB ram is not working with your mobo but Hyundai Electronics / Hynix ram is working ... most of the time issues like this can be solved with a bios update easily

oky...thats way this issue... i was not aware of.... thanks ... but, my PC is toooo slow.. i have scanned it with antivirus and found no virus and malware receding in my PC. I had done defragmenting my drive too. Nowadays It take 5-6 seconds to open a file or folder... I thought adding extra RAM would make my PC somewhat faster but its showing the same performance even in 8 GB RAM...

For bios update ... how can i go for it?? .. I found a utility named "biosagentplus" that update the bios from windows,,, is it safe to use ?

 

[helion]

For BIOS update, go to the mobo website and look for the latest stable release for the particular mobo you have. The usual way is to find the .EXE file that can be installed from within Windows. It usually installs at the next reboot, so keeping the UPS on at the time is essential.

 

[topgear]

for updating bios it' s safer to use a USB fat32 formatted pen drive - copy the downloaded bios file into the the PD and start the update process from bios - most of the mobos nowadays have option to update bios from within bios itself and the process is very simple

as for your slowness issue - just format the OS install partition and install a fresh copy of win 7 x64 - update it to SP1 and download and install all the updates for the OS and updated drivers for each and every hardware componenets you have.

 

[chetan.g]

For BIOS update, go to the mobo website and look for the latest stable release for the particular mobo you have. The usual way is to find the .EXE file that can be installed from within Windows. It usually installs at the next reboot, so keeping the UPS on at the time is essential.

for updating bios it' s safer to use a USB fat32 formatted pen drive - copy the downloaded bios file into the the PD and start the update process from bios - most of the mobos nowadays have option to update bios from within bios itself and the process is very simple

as for your slowness issue - just format the OS install partition and install a fresh copy of win 7 x64 - update it to SP1 and download and install all the updates for the OS and updated drivers for each and every hardware components you have.

Thanks for the guidance and support ... i will do as u stated..

 

[Sainatarajan]

You can post your pc config , so that I will know that it is a dual Channel or whatsoever.

 

[samiryadav]

also check if your RAM module is SINGLE SIDED OR DOUBLE SIDED.
means the memory chips are on 1 side of RAM or Both sides of RAM.
some motherboards do not support single sided RAMs

Supported memory configurations

DIMM Capacity Configuration SDRAM Density SDRAM Organization Front-side / Back-side Number of SDRAM Devices
512 MB Single-sided 1 Gbit 64 M x 16 / empty 4
1 GB Single-sided 1 Gbit 128 M x 8 / empty 8
1 GB Single-sided 2 Gbit 128 M x 16 / empty 4
2 GB Double-sided 1 Gbit 128 M x 8 / 128 M x 8 16
2 GB Single-sided 2 Gbit 128 M x 16 / empty 8
4 GB Double-sided 2 Gbit 256 M x 8 / 256 M x 8 16
4 GB Single-sided 4 Gbit 512 M x 8 / empty 8
8 GB Double-sided 4 Gbit 512 M x 8 / 512 M x 8 16

this is just an example....it is of my motherboard....find for your motherboard specs guide that came with it

Qualified Vendor List for memory for your motherboard

*dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socketAM3/M4A785TD-V_EVO/M4A785TD-V-EVO-Memory-QVL.zip

 

[d6bmg]

QVL is a piece of Sh*t for most of the boards. Once can run almost any DDR3 RAM on any board just by manually tweaking.

 

[samiryadav]

QVL is a piece of Sh*t for most of the boards. Once can run almost any DDR3 RAM on any board just by manually tweaking.

i posted it so that the OP can check the SS/DS CONFIGURATION FOR HIS MOBO...

 

[topgear]

You can post your pc config , so that I will know that it is a dual Channel or whatsoever.

read the first post of Op - he has ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO mobo.

BTW, OP has solved his issue by exchanging his non compatible ram module with his friend's ram module which is working OK on OP's mobo now. So locking this thread for now.

@ OP - if you need to unlock this thread just PM any mod.