<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I have an ASUS M2N-E board with AMD X2 4200 for my primary backend.</blockquote>
<div>[...] <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I had 2x2GB sticks of memory and I<br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
had no problems at all. My uptime was measured with months.</blockquote><div>[...] <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks!<br>
Chris Stackpole<br></blockquote><div><br>Chris, <br><br> I have the exact same motherboard in my backend (Asus M2N-E). I have been running an Athlon 64x2 4800 with 2GB ram in Dual-channel mode (1st and 3rd slots) for several months now. (2 x Crucial 1GB DDR2 800)<br>
<br> I recently got a good deal on a Dual Channel 4GB kit (2 x Crucial 2GB DDR2 800), so I decided to upgrade my system with them late last-night. Big mistake! I powered down the box, took out the 1GB sticks and put in the 2GB sticks. Machine wouldn't even POST! - Monitor stayed in 'powersave' mode... no 'beep codes'...<br>
<br> So I tried a CMOS reset - no change. I then moved the 2GB sticks to the 2nd and 4th slots. Humm, got through POST This time, but not stable. Even hangs going into the BIOS.... [NOT good!]<br><br> So I put the original 2GB back in, and it still wasn't working right. I reset the CMOS again, and it started working right again... [so much for my plan to go to bed early! By now it was nearly 1AM!] <br>
<br> Now that I look at the Asus web site for the "Qualified Vendors List" for our motherboard, it seems to be very 'picky' on the types/brands of memory it will take... [sigh] I guess I should have consulted the list first... <br>
<br> Or maybe I should have learned from similar experience with their boards in the past -- I've had Asus boards in the past that have 4 dimm slots that were very picky about the memory used in them... I thought perhaps it was chipset limitations, and they would have corrected those issues by now, but it doesn't seem that way! <br>
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Side note to Francis: The email echo is really cool. I don't think I<br>
have seen anyone do that before and if I have, I didn't catch it. It put<br>
a grin on my face. ;-)</blockquote><div><br>Mee too -- I like it... ;-) <br><br>J-e-f-f-A </div></div><br>