On 17/04/2010 01:03, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Camaleón put forth on 4/16/2010 8:31 AM: > >> It can be worst, though. There are manufacturers that paint all the RAM >> slots in black or using the same color and so forcing us to read the >> manual >:-) > > The manufacturers have bastardized the color coding to the point it's > useless; thus reading the manual is the only safe bet to get dual channel > operation setup correctly.
Um ... just my 2p: [score -1, redundant] My current rig - Abit NF7-S V2 mobo (Nforce 2 chipset) and Athlon XP CPU - has 3 DIMM slots all the same fetching shade of blue. I initially added two 256Mb sticks in slots 1 & 2, and got dual channel operation (the BIOS reports it at boot time : "Dual Channel Operation Enabled"). When I subsequently added another 512Mb stick in slot 3 this did not apparently affect dual channel operation (the message still appears). Maybe I get dual channel for the first 512Mb, but only single channel for the second 512Mb. I had to refer to the manual, *and* take advice from the wonderful members of alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit. The latter assured me adding the 3rd stick wouldn't prevent dual channel operation. Some day I must try to find out what memory speed I actually get. No more Abit now though, sigh. Cheers Nick -- Q: Why can't scientists just make up their minds already? A: Because if they did, they'd be theologians, not scientists. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bc93aa1.1060...@glimmer.adsl24.co.uk
