New Stick Of Ram, Dead? Please Advise:-(

[LWA]

Hey guys and gals,
Recently ordered a 512Mb stick of Twinmos (with winbond) memory. Well it arrived so I thought I would install it. I already have 2 x 256Mb Winbond ram sticks so I have a slot free. I changed the settings in the bios to run by spd then turned my computer off and put the new ram in.

Guess what, yep you got it no boot. I then reset the cmos and tried it again, still no joy. So I flipped the cmos battery out then just put the one new ram stick in. Still no boot. Put a stick of my old stuff in on its own and off it goes and boots first time.

Pretty sure I have a dead stick just wanted to check with you guys, any ideas?

Thanks,
Leon

[Agent]

If its seated correctly and you've cleared the BIOS just incase, then it does indeed sound dead.

[LWA]

Yep that's what I thought, tried it in all the slots :-( How annoying... oh well it happens.

[mike_w]

Sorry for hijacking, but the same thing just happened to me - bought two sticks and only one works.

[LWA]

Mike_w - from the same place (komplett) ? Sounds like a faulty batch then

[mike_w]

Yup, from Komplett.

[Steve]

You did try it on its own, just to be sure, right?

[LWA]

So I flipped the cmos battery out then just put the one new ram stick in. Still no boot.

Yep Kez tried that, thanks for trying to help tis appreciated.