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reganomics   04-06-2009 at 12:47:58 AM

my buddy, who is usually great at helping me fix most of the problems on my computer noticed that my memory sticks were in slots 3 and 4 (which was correct for this particular board btw) and before i realized what he did, he switched to 1 and 3. now when i boot up on the first screen it says im running in single channel instead of dual and it is only using one stick of memory (1gb). can anyone help me out? both memory sticks are matching and 800hmz. i can post my dxdiag if it will help but i dont know if it will show anything that matters. thanks in advance! :bounce:

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505090   04-06-2009 at 01:00:23 AM
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sounds odd but for the sake of simplicity just switch em back and move on

------------------------------ E8400 : GA-EP35-DS3L : mushkin 4GB DDR2 800 : HD 2600PRO : 450W ATX12V : Windows 7
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reganomics   04-06-2009 at 01:02:50 AM
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i did and nothing, tried all the configurations i could think of. the color coding of the slots are 1 and 2 are yellow and 3 and 4 are red.

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505090   04-06-2009 at 01:16:03 AM
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hmm should have known that would be to easy. Go into bios and set all ram settings to default if your not sure what to do there should be something that says restore bios to safe settings that will serve the same purpose. Then test each slot with one stick and see what happens the repeat each slot with the other stick. At that point you should have found the problem be it the slots or the sticks. Do all slots both times in case there is more than one problem.

------------------------------ E8400 : GA-EP35-DS3L : mushkin 4GB DDR2 800 : HD 2600PRO : 450W ATX12V : Windows 7
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reganomics   04-06-2009 at 01:49:18 AM
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alright so i did the following: went into the bios menu and set the failsafe defaults then proceeded to test the two sticks individually:
A1: did not boot
A2: did not boot
A3: booted up
A4: booted up
B1: nope
B2: nada
B3: nothing
B4: niet

so I'm guessing stick b is busted then?

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505090   04-06-2009 at 02:58:28 AM
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thats what it looks like to me

with the current price of ddr2 800 i would just get two matched sticks and save the your still working stick for testing and repairs

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820231219


Message edited by 505090 on 04-06-2009 at 03:03:48 AM
------------------------------ E8400 : GA-EP35-DS3L : mushkin 4GB DDR2 800 : HD 2600PRO : 450W ATX12V : Windows 7
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reganomics   04-06-2009 at 04:54:19 AM
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thanks for the troubleshooting.

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505090   04-06-2009 at 04:57:26 AM
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no prob thats what this is here for besides i've been bored all day

------------------------------ E8400 : GA-EP35-DS3L : mushkin 4GB DDR2 800 : HD 2600PRO : 450W ATX12V : Windows 7
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