On Saturday, December 8, 2018 at 2:51:49 AM UTC-8, wasbit wrote:
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Hi,

I've acquired 2x4GB new memory from Crucial as I found it to be compatible
with my PC(ASUS CM6850) on crucial.com.

It suggested `DDR3L-1600 UDIMM` and that is what I got (results slightly
changed but still align:
https://www.crucial.com/usa/en/compa...#MEMORYFilters)

Now, I popped them into the two empty banks in my PC, turned it on, the
fans spun up but both screens stayed black, I removed one bank, repeated
the power up procedure but got the same result. I then removed both new
banks and now it powered up again properly as it's supposed to.

Does this mean the memory I got is for some reason incompatible with my
system?
Why?

What does "results slightly changed but still align" mean?
If you opted for different memory than that which Crucial said was
compatible, then there's your answer.

I always use the Crucial System Scanner
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https://uk.crucial.com/gbr/en/system...pgrade-scanner

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Regards
wasbit

Thanks a lot guys! I got them running now, the situation:

The mother board has 4 slots, two are colored blue & the other two black (I'll want to find out why that is), call them 0 - 3 (0 being the one closest to the CPU)
0 black was occupied initially with a SAMSUNG bank
1 blue was empty
2 black was occupied initially with a SAMSUNG bank
3 blue was empty
My initial test was to insert the new banks int the empty blue slots which did nto work as expected.
As suggested, I removed them and replaced them with the new banks (SAMSUNG removed, Crucial inserted at their space) booted up fine.

I re-inserted SAMSUNG but now into slot 0 & 1 which worked fine.
I added a Crucial into slot 2 which worked fine too, I added the second Crucial in slot 3, booted up and was happy! I got a;ll my memory in that board now it works!
banks 0&1 SAMSUNG
banks 2&3 Crucial

love it!