memory sticks.

[Zac Naloen]

Quite simply, i bought 1gb of corsair memory sticks and they don't fit in my computers memory slots.. wtf?

[The Wookiee]

You mean RAM? What do you have, SDRAM or DDR-RAM? What kind of RAM did you get? Are you inserting it the right way?

[Akaramu Shinja]

Basicly, you have different types of RAM, and as such not every type fits in every slot.

[SPOOFE]

You may have picked up DDR-2 RAM instead of DDR, or the other way around. DDR has 184 (I think?) pins, while DDR-2 has 240. Obviously incompatible. Hope you can return them.

Although if you DID pick up some Memory Sticks and tried to install them in your RAM slots, that would be very funny.

[Praxis]

And there's the RAM for laptops, thats 200 pins.

[Keevan_Colton]

And there's the RAM for laptops, thats 200 pins.

SODIMM's

[Praxis]

And there's the RAM for laptops, thats 200 pins.

SODIMM's

Yeah, that stuff
Of course, you'd have to be So Dim to try to put those in a desktop...

[Zac Naloen]

heh, i picked up the ddr2. wasn't paying enough attention.

easily being fixed... cept now i have another problem.

My pc plain won't start up. its getting power, all the fans are spinning.

Its just won't do anything..

My motherboard has a problem in that it never reads my card correctly, so i have to play with the settings in the bios to make it read the processor properly (ie overclock). its doing it after doing that. neither my old processor or my new work anymore (no reason why the old shouldn't) so whats likely to be broken in this situation? Motherboard?

[Akaramu Shinja]

Will it post? Try clearing the bios first if not.

[SPOOFE]

Of course, you'd have to be So Dim to try to put those in a desktop...

But a single desktop RAM slot has enough space for two SODIMMs!!