sense Posted December 26, 2005 Posted December 26, 2005 Like in a previous thread recently my PC started becoming unstable. Random reboots so I thought it was my overclock. Put everything to default, ran fine for a while. Last week I power off my PC, came back the next day, powered it back on, 3 LED's of death. Since then I have tried just about every friggin thing possible. This motherboard does not want to cooperate. Both TCCD sticks work in single channel if I put them in the very top dimm slot, slot 1 yellow I believe? The second slot, they sometimes boot, sometimes dont, wtf? If I put them in dual channel, orange or yellow, DOES NOT BOOT, 3 LED's of death. I have tried clearing the CMOS for a few min to 12 hours and now 24 hours, still get 3 LED's of death but soon as I remove the bottom stick, it boots right up. Another WEIRD thing, I have original Mushkin BH5 2x512, I put those in dual channel, using the yellow slots 1+3 I believe and the PC boots up just fine. I thought maybe its a voltage thing, so I set all the timings, set vdimm to 2.8. Power off pc, put in the TCCD WILL NOT FRIGGIN BOOT. Once again, take out 1 stick, BOOTS FINE single channel. Do I need to RMA this board? I am going crazy with this thing, someone please help Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sense Posted December 26, 2005 Posted December 26, 2005 Ok everything is working once again. I moved the single stick from slot 1 (yellow) down to slot 3 (yellow), took my other stick that was sitting out, put it into slot 1 (yellow). Booted up just fine in dual channel. Man this board is a classy lady :nod: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
supershanks Posted December 26, 2005 Posted December 26, 2005 hi sense, Glad u sorted it but thats not a mobo issue. It's quiet common for 1 module to be weaker than the other even with matched pairs. You just discovered a commonly used trick to get better memory stability. luck Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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