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Recently I have upgraded my cpu from a AMD Athlon 3800+ to a Athlon 5200+ x2 and I'm unable to boot using dual channel mode configuration, all I get is a blank screen with flashing cursor, no post beeps nothing. At the moment Im using single channel mode without any ...


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Old 23rd Aug 2008, 12:21
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Default Cannot Run Memory In Dual Channel Mode (Help)

Recently I have upgraded my cpu from a AMD Athlon 3800+ to a Athlon 5200+ x2 and I'm unable to boot using dual channel mode configuration, all I get is a blank screen with flashing cursor, no post beeps nothing. At the moment Im using single channel mode without any problems. I have 4 dimm slots on the board as follows:- 1= black 2= yellow 3= black 4=yellow.

Putting my memory in both the yellow or black slots = dual channel

Putting my memory in a black slot and a yellow slot = single channel

I have updated my bios to the latest firmware and the bios is set to auto detection. I have tried manualy configuring the memory in the bios including timings and voltage, but still wont boot in dual channel....

Any help would be very much appreciated

My system:-

Asus m2n sli deluxe
x2 512 Corsair xms2 5400
cpu Amd Athlon 5200+ x2 2.7ghz
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Old 10th Sep 2008, 04:41
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make sure they are the same type of memory **IE** Simm, Dimm or Rimm
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Old 10th Sep 2008, 05:26
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Send them back to Corsair. Either your motherboard has a problem (unlikely) or the sticks aren't matched, which they promise to do at the factory, so Corsair messed this one up.
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Old 10th Sep 2008, 10:02
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Sorry for not mentioning this in my original post, but the memory worked fine in dual channel mode before I upgraded my processor. Perhaps they may be a problem with the memory controller in cpu. In my opinion I think that if there where a problem with the memory controller, I would be having other stability problems. But every thing is running exceptionally well although its only running in single channel mode
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Old 24th Sep 2008, 05:37
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musnt be compat bud
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Old 8th Oct 2008, 08:42
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Hmmm this is interesting. And you say that you have updated to the latest BIOS?

Do you have any other DDR2 RAM in the house you can try it with?
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