Hello I'm Dan, I'm new to this forum, and this is the first pc I've ever built; there's real problems running dual channel mode. Whenever I attempt to run dual channel mode, the comp just completely freezes on memtest. However, memtest works fine on every slot if I test it with any single piece of RAM. I have tried setting up dual channel in slots 1 & 3 and 2 & 4, with no luck. I even tried some different memory and it did the same.
This is my system spec
Model Name : GA-EP45-DS3L(rev. 1.0)
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M/B Rev : 1.0
BIOS Ver : F10
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VGA Brand : ati Model : Sapphire 100245L Radeon HD 4850 512 MB
CPU Brand : Intel Model : Intel Core 2 Duo E7300 Speed : 2.66 GHz
Operation System : Vista Ultimate 64-bit SP 1 + All Updates:
Memory Brand : PNY PC6400 DDR2 800Mhz 1.8v(2x2GB) Type : DDR
Memory Size : 2x2gb Speed : PC2-6400
Power Supply : 430 W W
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Flashed BIOS to latest version. Tested each stick of ram separately with memtest (newst version) and they worked fine, but memtest would not start at all with 2 sticks of 2 GB in dual channel mode, it just froze.
It appears that dual channel mode doesn't want to work. Does this sound like a faulty motherboard to you? I don't think there is anything else that can be done. Any suggestions?
RAM Timings are set to default which is 5- 5- 5- 15 and voltage is default at 1.8v.
Everything else is set to default. Please help. I don't know what to do with the Bios setting, I don't want to break my new computer.
This is my system spec
Model Name : GA-EP45-DS3L(rev. 1.0)
--------------------------
M/B Rev : 1.0
BIOS Ver : F10
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
VGA Brand : ati Model : Sapphire 100245L Radeon HD 4850 512 MB
CPU Brand : Intel Model : Intel Core 2 Duo E7300 Speed : 2.66 GHz
Operation System : Vista Ultimate 64-bit SP 1 + All Updates:
Memory Brand : PNY PC6400 DDR2 800Mhz 1.8v(2x2GB) Type : DDR
Memory Size : 2x2gb Speed : PC2-6400
Power Supply : 430 W W
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Flashed BIOS to latest version. Tested each stick of ram separately with memtest (newst version) and they worked fine, but memtest would not start at all with 2 sticks of 2 GB in dual channel mode, it just froze.
It appears that dual channel mode doesn't want to work. Does this sound like a faulty motherboard to you? I don't think there is anything else that can be done. Any suggestions?
RAM Timings are set to default which is 5- 5- 5- 15 and voltage is default at 1.8v.
Everything else is set to default. Please help. I don't know what to do with the Bios setting, I don't want to break my new computer.
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