Solve : Sound problems after adding RAM?

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Answer» I've got an ASUS M2a-vm HDMI motherboard running on board graphics and sound. It had 2 gb of RAM in the first slot. I added 2 1 gb sticks of RAM and it works, but the sound is all distorted whistles and chirps. When the 2 sticks are removed, sound is fine. I tried updating the chipset as well as the sound drivers to no avail. Any ideas out there? Thanks for listening Are the RAM stiks correct for that PC ? ?YES, ddr2 pc2-6400The board should be able to hold 8 gb Dual channel memory architecture 4 x 240-pin DIMM, support max. 8GB DDR2 800/667/533 ECC and Non-ECC,un-buffered memory *When installing total memory of 4GB capacity or more, Windows 32-bit operation system MAY only recognize less than 3GB. Hence, a total installed memory of less than 3GB is recommended.I'm running Windows 7 64 bit. I reinstalled Windows 7, and it worked, without sound, but upon restart I'm getting a white screen. I'm feeling PRETTY hopeless. I'm guessing I just can't upgrade my RAM. That sucks Did you try updating the BIOS version? I'm guessing it's the wrong RAM... Quote from: patio on November 09, 2014, 07:20:33 PM I'm guessing it's the wrong RAM... Yes. Or maybe defective. Send it back.memtest86 to check the memory on it would probably be a good test. It has pointed out memory issues many times and works well. http://www.memtest86.com/ I had an issue with integrated video Radeon HD 3000 with desktop environment refresh issues that were random where the only way to get rid of an old window that was closed out was to open a new window and move that window over the area of the desktop where the remnant remained to force that area of the desktop to refresh. I found out after running memtest86 that it was one of my DDR2 533Mhz sticks had a defect of some SORT. Removing the troubled stick and running Windows on 1GB RAM the problem went away. So I ended up replacing both 533Mhz sticks with some 667Mhz sticks that I had and fixed my problem. My motherboard could handle 533,667, and 800Mhz DDR2 Non-ECC sticks. Because of integrated video using 512MB of the 2GB system RAM for GPU use, the system memory issue on the one stick caused issues with the GPU. But in relation to sound, i have also seen bad memory or mismatched memory cause sound issues with chirps, gaps in sound, as well as looping audio segments, as well as system crash after hearing a loud electronic buzzing sound that was similar to a mac truck air horn when audio was set to like 7 of 10 on a quality sound system when gaming and a memory stick cut out in the middle of the game about 3 hours into the game on a new build. You probably have a memory stick that is causing the issue.

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I've got an ASUS M2a-vm HDMI motherboard running on board graphics and sound. It had 2 gb of RAM in the first slot. I added 2 1 gb sticks of RAM and it works, but the sound is all distorted whistles and chirps. When the 2 sticks are removed, sound is fine. I tried updating the chipset as well as the sound drivers to no avail. Any ideas out there? Thanks for listening Are the RAM stiks correct for that PC ? ?YES, ddr2 pc2-6400The board should be able to hold 8 gb Dual channel memory architecture
4 x 240-pin DIMM, support max. 8GB DDR2 800/667/533 ECC and Non-ECC,un-buffered memory
*When installing total memory of 4GB capacity or more, Windows 32-bit operation system MAY only recognize less than 3GB. Hence, a total installed memory of less than 3GB is recommended.I'm running Windows 7 64 bit.
I reinstalled Windows 7, and it worked, without sound, but upon restart I'm getting a white screen.
I'm feeling PRETTY hopeless.
I'm guessing I just can't upgrade my RAM. That sucks Did you try updating the BIOS version? I'm guessing it's the wrong RAM... Quote from: patio on November 09, 2014, 07:20:33 PM

I'm guessing it's the wrong RAM...

Yes. Or maybe defective. Send it back.memtest86 to check the memory on it would probably be a good test. It has pointed out memory issues many times and works well. http://www.memtest86.com/

I had an issue with integrated video Radeon HD 3000 with desktop environment refresh issues that were random where the only way to get rid of an old window that was closed out was to open a new window and move that window over the area of the desktop where the remnant remained to force that area of the desktop to refresh. I found out after running memtest86 that it was one of my DDR2 533Mhz sticks had a defect of some SORT. Removing the troubled stick and running Windows on 1GB RAM the problem went away. So I ended up replacing both 533Mhz sticks with some 667Mhz sticks that I had and fixed my problem. My motherboard could handle 533,667, and 800Mhz DDR2 Non-ECC sticks.

Because of integrated video using 512MB of the 2GB system RAM for GPU use, the system memory issue on the one stick caused issues with the GPU. But in relation to sound, i have also seen bad memory or mismatched memory cause sound issues with chirps, gaps in sound, as well as looping audio segments, as well as system crash after hearing a loud electronic buzzing sound that was similar to a mac truck air horn when audio was set to like 7 of 10 on a quality sound system when gaming and a memory stick cut out in the middle of the game about 3 hours into the game on a new build.

You probably have a memory stick that is causing the issue.

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