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well, i have a mobo with 4 ram slots, setup for dual channel ram, however after recent troubles it seems something is wrong with slot 3 and 4 (i did all sorts of tests and this is the only plausible conclusion i can come up with)... i have 2 1gb sticks of dual channel ram, and when running with 1gb in slot 1, i have no problems, is it worth putting the second stick into slot 2? or will this cause problems due to the RAM being dual channel... since i cannot currently afford to change mobo, im stuck with this setup as the warranty has ended... so im just guna have to cope with slots 1 and 2 for now :P

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Usually RAM is RAM. Its dual channel or single channel according to how you use tha RAM slots. If you stick the sticks into same coloured slots than it will operate in dual channel mode. If you use diffferent colour slots it will operate in single channel mode. Something to try, go into BIOS and set all memory for auto detect and not manual. If that doesnt work set it to manual and try a slower memory speed. So if its 266 MHz set to 200. Sometimes dodgy memory can still work if set to operate at a slower speed. Might get slighlty lower performance but at least you can use until you are ready to buy new RAM. Hopefully it is not a case of faulty RAM slots.