Jamus Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 Hello, I can not get the system to post or boot. The screen stays on standby with no beep or Post errors. I can only load the bios with a single stick of memory. Any slot with one stick will load however once I add a second stick for Dual data mode the system will not post. I've tested it will XMS2 800MHZ Twin 2x512MB and Twin 2x1GB with 5-5-5-12 timing and with XMS2 800MHZ Twin 2x2GB sticks TWIN2X4096-6400C5. I tried bring the speed down to 667 MHZ and on the TWIN2X4096-6400C5 I tried to increase the voltage to 2.1v as suggested in another forum and neither worked. Help and help some more... p.s. I even tried reseting the bios and updating the bios as well to the lasted release from the intel website. Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 Sounds like a bad memory controller. Does running 2 sticks in single channel mode work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamus Posted October 10, 2008 Author Share Posted October 10, 2008 Yes it does work in single channel mode and the insteresting thing about that is when I first boot in single channel mode is says: "The Amount of Ram in slot A does not match the amount of Ram in slot B. For better performance please use the same sized memory. Please enter to continue" The best part is that they are TWIN sticks of memory. Does that suggest a bad memory controller? It did work in dual channel mode when I first tested the board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 10, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 10, 2008 Just to be sure, I would test each module one at a time in the slot closest tot he CPU using http://www.memtest.org. If both modules pass, when tested individually, then I would suspect the memory controller as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamus Posted October 12, 2008 Author Share Posted October 12, 2008 They pass the mem test and they work without issue on a different board. I think that I going to have to go with the failing memory controller... Thanks for the advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 13, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 13, 2008 You might try moving the memory to the other two slots and see if that makes a difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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