hey i ran into a problem today that has never cropped up for me before i have an asus deluxe p5w motherboard capable of supporting 8 gig of ram, it has been running lately with 2x2 gig corsair 6400 sticks in, shows up as 4 gig on the startup, added 2 sticks of 1 gig 6400 corsair dominator memory now at startup it shows 2 gig installed wasn't sure what was going on there so i decided to experiment, removed a 1 gig stick it now shows 3 gig there instead of 5
so i tried these steps
removed all the memory
put each memory stick in one at a time to see if one was fried they were all ok
put the 2 - 1 gig sticks in the orange slots, shows 2 gig in startup (fine)
put a 2 gig and a 1 gig in the primary slot - shows as 3 gig (fine)
put 4 - 1 gig sticks in the slots mainly to see if there was an issue with combining the 2gig sticks and 1 gig sticks, should show up as 4 gig only shows up as 2
tried various combinations of the different types of ram, when using 4x1 gig sticks it always showed as 2 gig at startup no matter the combination
i thought at first that maybe 2 of the slots were fried, but since adding the 2 gig sticks in the primary (orange) slots and adding the 1 gig sticks in the secondary slots makes the total number go down those slots must be working to some degree?
so i tried these steps
removed all the memory
put each memory stick in one at a time to see if one was fried they were all ok
put the 2 - 1 gig sticks in the orange slots, shows 2 gig in startup (fine)
put a 2 gig and a 1 gig in the primary slot - shows as 3 gig (fine)
put 4 - 1 gig sticks in the slots mainly to see if there was an issue with combining the 2gig sticks and 1 gig sticks, should show up as 4 gig only shows up as 2
tried various combinations of the different types of ram, when using 4x1 gig sticks it always showed as 2 gig at startup no matter the combination
i thought at first that maybe 2 of the slots were fried, but since adding the 2 gig sticks in the primary (orange) slots and adding the 1 gig sticks in the secondary slots makes the total number go down those slots must be working to some degree?