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ZahiC   10-17-2008 at 03:41:05 PM

Hi all,

I've recently got two identical memory sticks of Kingston DDR2-800, 1GB each.
The memory works great when I place it in different channels, and, as expected, it works in a single channel mode (with 667).
When I try to place the sticks in the same channel to get a dual channel mode, I had the three beeps that indicate a memory problem.

My motherboard is D945PSN, it supports up to 667 memory speed. As I understand there shouldn't be any special problem for the memory to work in a dual channel in 667 speed each.
My BIOS version is not updated but I have passed all over the Releases notes for the BIOS update and it doesn't seems to be any update related to memory problems.

Any ideas for possible problems?

thanks

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ghmage   10-17-2008 at 10:15:53 PM
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You want a stick in each channel (that's different channels) for dual channel mode. Putting both sticks into one channel would only be one channel.

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ZahiC   10-17-2008 at 11:03:36 PM
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Yea.. sorry, I guess you right..

In other words,
When the sticks are in same color slots it beeps... any ideas why?


Message edited by ZahiC on 10-17-2008 at 11:04:28 PM
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ghmage   10-17-2008 at 11:17:43 PM
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Not sure, you could try clearing the CMOS.
I looked at the following - http://www.intel.com/support/mothe [...] 010249.htm and it seems that 3 beeps reports a "Base 64 K memory failure". The linked page has some information on what to try to remedy the error.

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