Hi, Hope you can help me, about 12 months ago I spent a lot of money building a new games machine the motherboard I used was a Gigabyte P4 Titan 875P and I installed 1 gig of DDR in two slot’s the memory is running in dual channel.
My manual say’s the board will take up to 4gig of ram so I bought another 1gig exactly the same memory as I installed but the board won’t run it. I put the memory in the slot’s that the manual said. I have been on the Gigabyte site and it say’s to update the bios but I have never done this before and am nervous to do so, has anybody done this and what is the safest way to update. ÂÂ!

Updating the bios is usually a last resort if your not too sure. try using that memory on it's own, and/or in another machine, if it doesn't work then assume it's faulty memory, and get a replacement.

Hope this helps,

Roz

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Updating the BIOS is usually pretty painless

With the exception of some cheap motherboard manufacturers like Foxconn, ASRock etc, it's pretty difficult to make a mistake. All you need to do is create a boot disk, download the correct ROM file and flashing software and read the instructions carefully. These are good guidelines though:

• Make sure you're using the latest or recommended version of flash software; occasionally a new BIOS will require a more recent version of flash software. The readme files accompanying the ROM file will tell you what to use.
• Check your floppy for errors. From the command prompt (Start, Run, cmd), type chkdsk a: /r. If you get any errors, re-format the disk and copy the flash/ROM files over again. If you keep getting errors, use another disk.
• If the flashing software refuses to flash, force it at your peril. Flash software usually makes several checks to ensure you're not trying to do something stupid, but it can still be forced to flash, which you would regret
• Avoid using Windows flashing software. They rely on your Windows environment being rock solid, which is never assured.

Any of us who'd been into computers for a while have killed at least one motherboard with a bad flash. This is pretty difficult to do today though, as motherboards are often released with buggy firmware, necessitating the need for idiot-proof flashing software.