Hello.
I was putting another hard drive in my computer, when I noticed that there is a third slot for RAM which is empty. The other two slots each have a 512mb stick. When I try to boot with an additional 512mb stick in the third slot, I get beeping from the motherboard and nothing on screen. (Fans and lights come on. 2 second repeating beep from motherboard.)
So, my question is, can I add more RAM using this slot?
If yes, how?
If no, what is it for?
PS: Here is some hardware info:
I was putting another hard drive in my computer, when I noticed that there is a third slot for RAM which is empty. The other two slots each have a 512mb stick. When I try to boot with an additional 512mb stick in the third slot, I get beeping from the motherboard and nothing on screen. (Fans and lights come on. 2 second repeating beep from motherboard.)
So, my question is, can I add more RAM using this slot?
If yes, how?
If no, what is it for?
PS: Here is some hardware info:
Code:
stretch@Z:~$ sudo lshw
[sudo] password for stretch:
z
description: Desktop Computer
width: 32 bits
capabilities: smbios-2.3 dmi-2.3 smp
configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop
*-core
description: Motherboard
product: MS-6570
vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD
physical id: 0
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
physical id: 0
version: 6.00 PG
date: 08/12/2003
size: 128KiB
capacity: 192KiB
capabilities: isa pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb agp ls120boot zipboot netboot
*-cpu
description: CPU
product: AMD Athlon(tm)
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 4
bus info: cpu@0
version: 6.10.0
slot: Socket A
size: 1100MHz
capacity: 2200MHz
width: 32 bits
clock: 100MHz
capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow cpufreq
*-cache:0
description: L1 cache
physical id: 9
slot: Internal Cache
size: 128KiB
capacity: 128KiB
capabilities: synchronous internal write-back
*-cache:1
description: L2 cache
physical id: a
slot: External Cache
size: 512KiB
capacity: 512KiB
capabilities: synchronous external write-back
*-memory
description: System Memory
physical id: 1b
slot: System board or motherboard
size: 1GiB
capacity: 1536MiB
*-bank:0
description: DIMM [empty]
product: None
vendor: None
physical id: 0
serial: None
slot: A0
*-bank:1
description: DIMM
product: None
vendor: None
physical id: 1
serial: None
slot: A1
size: 512MiB
*-bank:2
description: DIMM
product: None
vendor: None
physical id: 2
serial: None
slot: A2
size: 512MiB
*-pci
description: Host bridge
product: nForce2 IGP2
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: c1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
configuration: driver=agpgart-nvidia
resources: irq:0 memory:e0000000-e3ffffff
*-memory:0 UNCLAIMED
description: RAM memory
product: nForce2 Memory Controller 1
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.1
version: c1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
configuration: latency=0
*-memory:1 UNCLAIMED
description: RAM memory
product: nForce2 Memory Controller 4
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.2
version: c1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
configuration: latency=0
*-memory:2 UNCLAIMED
description: RAM memory
product: nForce2 Memory Controller 3
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.3
version: c1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
configuration: latency=0
*-memory:3 UNCLAIMED
description: RAM memory
product: nForce2 Memory Controller 2
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0.4
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.4
version: c1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
configuration: latency=0
*-memory:4 UNCLAIMED
description: RAM memory
product: nForce2 Memory Controller 5
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0.5
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.5
version: c1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
configuration: latency=0
*-isa
description: ISA bridge
product: nForce2 ISA Bridge
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
version: a4
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: isa ht bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
*-serial
description: SMBus
product: nForce2 SMBus (MCP)
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 1.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.1
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm cap_list
configuration: driver=nForce2_smbus latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3
resources: irq:10 ioport:e400(size=32)
*-usb:0
description: USB controller
product: nForce2 USB Controller
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: a4
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm ohci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ohci-pci latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3
resources: irq:22 memory:e7003000-e7003fff
*-usb:1
description: USB controller
product: nForce2 USB Controller
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 2.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
version: a4
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm ohci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ohci-pci latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3
resources: irq:21 memory:e7004000-e7004fff
*-usb:2
description: USB controller
product: nForce2 USB Controller
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 2.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.2
version: a4
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: debug pm ehci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ehci-pci latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3
resources: irq:20 memory:e7005000-e70050ff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: nForce2 Ethernet Controller
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 4
bus info: pci@0000:00:04.0
logical name: eth0
version: a1
serial: 00:0c:76:3a:63:5a
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=forcedeth driverversion=0.64 latency=0 link=no maxlatency=20 mingnt=1 multicast=yes port=MII
resources: irq:22 memory:e7000000-e7000fff ioport:d000(size=8)
*-multimedia
description: Multimedia audio controller
product: nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP)
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 6
bus info: pci@0000:00:06.0
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=snd_intel8x0 latency=0 maxlatency=5 mingnt=2
resources: irq:21 ioport:d400(size=256) ioport:d800(size=128) memory:e7001000-e7001fff
*-pci:0
description: PCI bridge
product: nForce2 External PCI Bridge
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 8
bus info: pci@0000:00:08.0
version: a3
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master
resources: ioport:c000(size=4096) memory:e6000000-e6ffffff
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 7
bus info: pci@0000:01:07.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 20
serial: 00:18:e7:78:29:2f
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8180 driverversion=3.13.0-30-generic firmware=N/A ip=10.0.0.21 latency=32 link=yes maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
resources: irq:16 ioport:c000(size=256) memory:e6005000-e60053ff
*-firewire
description: FireWire (IEEE 1394)
product: TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
vendor: Texas Instruments
physical id: 9
bus info: pci@0000:01:09.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm ohci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=firewire_ohci latency=32 maxlatency=4 mingnt=2
resources: irq:19 memory:e6004000-e60047ff memory:e6000000-e6003fff
*-ide
description: IDE interface
product: nForce2 IDE
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 9
bus info: pci@0000:00:09.0
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ide pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pata_amd latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3
resources: irq:0 ioport:1f0(size=8) ioport:3f6 ioport:170(size=8) ioport:376 ioport:f000(size=16)
*-pci:1
description: PCI bridge
product: nForce2 AGP
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 1e
bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.0
version: c1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master
resources: memory:e4000000-e5ffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm agp agp-3.0 vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nouveau latency=32 maxlatency=1 mingnt=5
resources: irq:19 memory:e4000000-e4ffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:e5000000-e501ffff
*-scsi:0
physical id: 1
logical name: scsi0
capabilities: emulated
*-disk:0
description: ATA Disk
product: ST310014A
vendor: Seagate
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: 3.09
serial: 5JRGDMA8
size: 9768MiB (10GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=512 signature=000b6d24
*-volume:0
description: EXT4 volume
vendor: Linux
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sda1
logical name: /
version: 1.0
serial: 9982cdcd-bd44-49de-97c3-29ac402c32d0
size: 8743MiB
capacity: 8743MiB
capabilities: primary bootable journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink recover extents ext4 ext2 initialized
configuration: created=2014-07-12 23:35:48 filesystem=ext4 lastmountpoint=/ modified=2014-07-14 02:17:33 mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered mounted=2014-07-14 02:17:33 state=mounted
*-volume:1
description: Extended partition
physical id: 2
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,2
logical name: /dev/sda2
size: 1023MiB
capacity: 1023MiB
capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended
*-logicalvolume
description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
physical id: 5
logical name: /dev/sda5
capacity: 1023MiB
capabilities: nofs
*-disk:1
description: ATA Disk
product: ST310211A
vendor: Seagate
physical id: 0.1.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.1.0
logical name: /dev/sdb
version: 6.55
serial: 5DB2E0LP
size: 9541MiB (10GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 sectorsize=512 signature=00078ea9
*-volume
description: Windows FAT volume
vendor: mkfs.fat
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@0:0.1.0,1
logical name: /dev/sdb1
logical name: /media/stretch/HDD002
version: FAT32
serial: 4e6d-d9c7
size: 9538MiB
capacity: 9540MiB
capabilities: primary fat initialized
configuration: FATs=2 filesystem=fat label=HDD002 mount.fstype=vfat mount.options=rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro state=mounted
*-scsi:1
physical id: 2
logical name: scsi1
capabilities: emulated
*-cdrom:0
description: DVD-RAM writer
product: DVD-RAM GH22NP20
vendor: HL-DT-ST
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: 2.00
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
*-cdrom:1
description: DVD writer
product: DVDRW SHW-160P6S
vendor: LITE-ON
physical id: 0.1.0
bus info: scsi@1:0.1.0
logical name: /dev/sr1
version: PS0A
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc