How can I get my ram working in the hp proliant ml350 g3?

Compare the specs for the RAM that the computer can use vs the specs for the RAM that you have.

The rame is just some no name ram sticks, I tried about 10 different sticks before I found them.

You need to check in the BIOS settings for the correct bus speed and CAS timings for the motherboard, and make sure that the RAM you have matches them.
You’ll probably need to go to the vendors’ (Kingston’s and Trancend’s) with the model numbers to find this data out for sure, although it looks like you already have that data w/r/t the Trancend sticks.

Once you’ve established that the settings are correct and the RAM is the right type, then if the RAM doesn’t work it means that one or more of the sticks is bad (because you already had all four slots filled with the 512MB sticks and they were working OK, right?). So then you pull out one stick at a time and see if the machine boots. If it doesn’t boot with any one stick out, then take them all out and try booting the machine with one stick at a time in bank 0.

I tried with the 2 kingstons and one 512 anit booted but only showed 512mb of ram. I heard that some systems need EEC ran to boot up, maybe thats what that is. I can’t see anything in the BIOS about ram or anything like that.

Look up your system on Crucial to get a grip on specifically what is spec’d for your machine. Some RAM controllers are marginal enough or are being pushed to a limit such that all the RAM has to be a specific kind or things get unstable.

The only results were 74 dollar 1gb ram and 145 dollar 2gb ram, way too much

…. but check out what are the specs on those types, is that type your new RAM is?

@dabbler Here is the information I found on the link you posted (bookmark’d, and thanks for that)- it took about 90 seconds to find it.

DDR PC2700 • CL=2.5 • Registered • ECC • DDR333 • 2.5V

The link @XOIIO gives for kingston RAM says “Non-ECC” so those are not going to function in the system. Not clear if the Transcend are ECC or not but they appear to otherwise have the right designations.

The ECC RAM are more expensive because they are more complex, they have Error detection circuits, error correction circuits, and alarm interrupt circuits that non-ECC don’t have. The upside is that ECC memory corrects one-bit errors that will go undetected or halt the machine with a non-ECC system.

Well i’ve tried every ram stick solo and none of them work, so I’m going to have to check at a computer place if I can trade them for some EEC ram or something.