Weird PCI problem

by jnz • 23 Nov 2009, 15:26 • Journals
I doubt you jolly chaps will be able to help me with this prob, cause its totally random and illogical.

I bought another 1GB ram (have 1x2GB already). It's 100% working and compatible.

BUT if two RAM sticks are in my motherboard my PCI wireless (netgear wg311v3) card doesn't manage to connect to the internet (unable to do anything useful like find networks even) although it's still recognised in device manager. (tried resetting all net stuff etc ofc)

**Edit: I discovered this is a common weird problem with this particular model, 2GB works fine, 4GB works fine, 3GB does not work fine --- what a piece of shit!
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strN 23 Nov 2009, 15:27
try another pci slot
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jnz 23 Nov 2009, 15:28
thanks but already tried ;)
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bestestplayer 23 Nov 2009, 15:33
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zerender 23 Nov 2009, 15:56
i smiled and feel so bad about it :[]
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bestestplayer 23 Nov 2009, 18:35
i smiled first but than i thought bout those kids...
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Fixate 23 Nov 2009, 15:32
you cant have 2GB on one side and 1GB on the other.... it needs to be balanced. Go back and get another 2GB.
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Kiewan 23 Nov 2009, 15:37
or turn of dual channel
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Fixate 23 Nov 2009, 15:43
Its might work but its dumb and prolly slow. but anyway its not like DDR2 ram is super expensive so why on earth would you waste money on 1GB in the first place xD just get 2 so you have 4 lolololol
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ETNiES 23 Nov 2009, 16:42
It's after jumping back up in price thanks to the Phenom's.
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jnz 23 Nov 2009, 15:39
its ok i have 4 slots, so there can be two different sizes
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Cwrd 23 Nov 2009, 15:35
does it show that you have 3gb installed?
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jnz 23 Nov 2009, 15:40
yeh tnx. i am reading now this is a model specific gay problem. e.g. "My wg311v3 has been working with 4gb ram on vista x64 for almost 6 months. Unfortunately if I boot with 3gb ram the adapter wont work (don't ask me why). "
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Fixate 23 Nov 2009, 15:48
hahaha that sux mate
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