Re: Can't run memory in dual mode


"Sylvain VAN DER WALDE" <sylvain.vanderwalde@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Haven't you got a motherboard manual?
>
> For DDR Ram only:
>
> You must put one stick of Ram into 1 blue slot, and the other one in 1
> black (?) slot. Don't use both blue slots for a particular pair.


Indeed, I do have a MB manual and have practically worn out the memory
pages.

Nowhere in my manual does it say to put a pair of DDR sticks in unmatched
slots, i.e., one blue and one black.

It says:

"2. Use the blue DIMM slots first" on page 2-12

Under recommended memory configurations it either allows one of the blue or
one of the black slots to be populated by a single stick, or two blues or
two blacks, or both blues and both blacks, but never one black and one blue,
for 2 and 4 sticks respectively.

This is from the manual for the P4P800E-Deluxe. Am I reading it incorrectly?
If you have two non-identical sticks are you supposed to put one in the blue
slot and one in the black slot? If so, it deosn't say that anywhere that I
can see.

Ken



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