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dual channel ram on epox mobo
Name: allen (by allenehuang) Date: May 25, 2006 at 09:04:40 Pacific OS: windows xp CPU/Ram: amd 3200/ 1gb (512x2)
Comment:
I recently purchased a EPoX EP-9NPA+Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard along with 2 sticks of corsair value select ram. When I go to plug in the sticks of ram, it won't boot with them trying to run in dual channel. If I change the seating of the RAM so it isn't in dual channel, the computer boots fine, and recognizes both sticks of ram.
I looked at the reviews on the epox motherboard on newegg and there are people with the same ram and motherboard setup gettinig dual channel to run.
Can anyone give me any suggestions as to why this is happeneing?
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Name: Badboy Date: May 25, 2006 at 09:27:33 Pacific
Reply:
Is this RAM listed in Corsair's configurator for this MOBO?
I used 2 x 1GB Kingston ValueRAM DDR2 PC4200 for a computer and found that it runs faster with one stick than with two. The Kingston configurator gives part numbers for this MOBO that are almost the part number of these ValueRAM sticks. After trying many tweaks (BIOS upgrade, manually setting the timing) and fully testing the sticks, I'm resigned to running only 1GB of RAM.
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Response Number 2
Name: allen (by allenehuang) Date: May 27, 2006 at 15:59:19 Pacific
Reply:
I just checked the Corsair configurator, and it has my RAM listed in the compatible section.
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