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Unbelievable; after waiting 2 weeks for replacement memory Kingston KHX8500D2T1K2/4G to come in, I drive about 20 kms to the PC shop to pick it up. After finishing business ops for the day, I shut down the PC, remove my existing RAM from slots 1 & 2 and drop in the 2 new modules in slots 3 & 4. When it boots up, the memory shows as 800MHz and BIOS displays ‘running in safe mode’ message … what the!

So I shut it down, and swap the memory into slots1 & 2, reboot and it’s still running at 800MHz, despite BIOS being set to run at 1066MHz. OK, so I shut it down and reseat both modules, then reboot … but this time there’s no POST, so nothing on screen at all – arrgghh

Out with the new RAM, in with existing (same make/model/type) and reboot – everything runs fine, and at 1066MHz; and to make sure I run Memtest for one full pass of all 8 tests without a problem.

New RAM has been returned to PC shop, and am now awaiting another replacement 2 x 2GB kit – and when it gets here it better work !