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[Gizzmoe]

Originally Posted by Kaptan Tommy

The computer recognized the RAM right off, but I guess that doesn't matter. So now I've got two 512mb RAM chips in a sandwich bag waiting to be dug up by some archaeologist in 5000 years.

What you could try is to remove the old 512MB chip and only use the two new ones. Some boards don´t like to have mixed RAM chips.

Another reason could be that manual RAM timings are set in the BIOS. Look for "RAM Timings" in "Advanced chipset options". Set it to "By SPD" if it´s set to "Manual". "By SPD" means that the RAM informs the system which timings it uses. It could be that your old RAM is faster than the new one and that it simply didn´t like the faster timings of the old chip.