Please help me problem with GA-G41M-Combo and DDR3 RAM

[LuisHappy]

Hello I recently purchased Kingston Hyper X 1333MHz 4GB DDR3 but when i put it in my motherboard nothing would happen it would just turn on and off i am upgrading from 2GB DDR2 RAM. and i was wondering if there is like a switch in the BIOS that i have to switch or something to use the DDR3 RAM but any help will be greatly appreciated.

the motherboard I have is: Gigabyte GA-G41M-Combo

[absic]

Hi there,

silly question first, you have removed the DDR2 module from the motherboard? You can only run either DDR2 or DDR3 with this motherboard not both.

Have you tried clearing CMOS by removing the motherboard battery? Doing this can sometimes help, especially when switching a major component such as RAM.

When you swapped the RAM modules, is there any chance that you caused damage to the motherboard or other parts or accidentally loosened any of the power connectors? Check all parts are seated properly and power connectors are still firmly seated in their respective sockets.

If, after going through the above steps, you still have no joy in getting the system to POST then I would suggest putting the DDR2 module back into the motherboard and reflashing the BIOS using QFlash. Once the BIOS update has completed DO NOT reboot the PC, but shut it down. Swap the DDR2 for the DDR3 module and then restart the PC.

[nem3sis]

Hello I recently purchased Kingston Hyper X 1333MHz 4GB DDR3 but when i put it in my motherboard nothing would happen it would just turn on and off i am upgrading from 2GB DDR2 RAM. and i was wondering if there is like a switch in the BIOS that i have to switch or something to use the DDR3 RAM but any help will be greatly appreciated.

the motherboard I have is: Gigabyte GA-G41M-Combo

bro this is your lucky day i have the solution just minutes ago i do answer my solution in the forum of Gigabyte :

I have the same motherboard GA-G41M-COMBO and also I had the same problem, i did buy two memory moduls ADATA AXDU1333GB2G9-3G, just i do think this kind of memory will be working fine in my motherboard because are inside of specs of Mobo.

Here's what happened i did install the two new modules of DDR3 ADATA 1333 and the motherboard just can not boot anything this just kept beeping without any possibility of go inside of BIOS, and then like there was not way to select some option like *Default Settings*, so I assumed than i should delete the BIOS settings through CLR_CMOS jumper and so I try (and even retire the battery) but it did not work and the mobo kept beeping after the clearing of settings, the which is something very strange as this motherboard should support DDR3.

But then happened something very strange here, you see how before i was using two modules of DDR2 both of 1GB and like this still work for my I do have the idea of do downgrade to another bios one older than the last than i do have flashed in the mobo and after of make this and only so finally the motherboar was capable of can boot with the new memory DDR3.

To here that was my solution, but then i do assume something will be wrong with the last bios provided by gigabyte and to confirm this i just think i was be easy prove just i will reflash again the last bios with the new DDR3 Modules working and after this the Motherboard logically would not boot and so i make it, but I had a big surprise when this time with the bios than before cant get work now it do work nicely..


Someone understand where was the problem, but all this was my sulution hope to someone this info be useful... =)


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