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ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 seeing 4/6 GB ram

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When I removed the processor cover originally, it fell out of my hands and hit the pins. It dented 5 or so of them. I was able to easily bend most of them back. I installed the processor and setup the machine. Everything appears to be working fine in the OS. No blue screens or anything.

The motherboard has 6 slots for RAM. I'm using OCZ Platinum 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800). The proper configuration is to place 1 stick in each of the 3 orange slots. The last 2 slots (C1 & C2) don't appear to be recognizing RAM at all. I can get all 3 dimms to show up if I use any combination of A1, A2, B1, B2. Of course, the problem is that they won't work in triple channel unless I put one in C1.

I've heard that the bent pin may be the culprit. Does anyone know specifically which pin I should concentrate my efforts on? Any other suggestions?

Is there a processor test that checks each pin connection to see if it's acceptable?

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Are you using a 32 bit OS?
32 bits will only address up to 4 GB of memory

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Reply to dunklegend

I'm using the 64 bit Win 7. Right now I see all 6GB, but that's because it's in the A1, A2 and B1 slots. Triple channel will only work if it's in A1, B1, C1 (orange) slots.

Reply to ihateduke

I just moved the 3rd dimm back to the C1 slot to do another test. In both the BIOS and Windows it shows 4GB again. I ran CPU-Z and it actually shows all 6GB and now says triple channel. So the problem isn't that the entire ram slots are bad, but something related to it isn't correct.

Reply to ihateduke

SOLVED! After doing more research I found a doc where someone had tightened their passive cooler too tight. I have the Prolimatech Megahalem. So I took it apart and made sure everything was snug, but not super tight. RAM now shows up.

Reply to ihateduke
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