WackyT
February 8th, 2009, 10:12 AM
I have an Athlon XP 3000+ system that's been running fine for 4+ years with 1GB of memory in dual channel mode on an nForce2 motherboard (Asus A7N8X Deluxe Ver. 2 (http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=13&l3=56&l4=0&model=216&modelmenu=1)). I've been seeing memory prices dropping and dropping, so I decided to buy 2 1GB sticks to bring her up to 2GB before the old DDR modules become rare. The old 512MB modules have been in memory slots 2 & 3, the 2 blue colored slots, since I built the system. So when I got the new DIMMs I just popped out the 2 512MBs and popped the 2 1GBs into the same slots. This is where the headaches start. I started getting various bluescreens after that. I ran Memtest86 a whole night with no errors, but I couldn't get rid of the bluescreens :reallymad: . Last night I decided to read the manual :eek: and found out dual channel mode can run in either slots 1 & 3 or slots 2 & 3 :thwap: . So I switched the DIMM in slot 2 to slot 1 and it's running great again, and in dual channel mode :AOK: ! Moral of the story is to always question your own instincts. There is a reason hardware manuals are written. :D