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Here's the deal, recently I've noticed that I've had put my RAM into the wrong sockets and that they were working in single channel all the time. Today I've decided to put them into the correct sockets so they could work in dual channel. After doing so everything looked just fine, but after 2-3minutes of work (the OS booted just fine) the cpu rebooted itself. At first I thought that there's something wrong with my RAM, so I've tried my brother's Kingstones, which are completely fine (2x512), but after 10-15mins the cpu simply frozen and I had to reboot it. During one try before the reboot Windows popped up a window saying there's some kind of an error in one of the system files and it will reboot in 60seconds (didnt write the message down ;/).

And now I'm wondering what's causing this problem, is it:
- my RAM sticks are simply bad? I've bought them together and they were supposed to work in dual channel.
- my feeder sucks (Topower P5 U12 400W).
- my OS gone wild and I shouls reinstall it?

Did you make sure your ram slots were free of dust or any other contamination? Since they weren't used for so long dust could have gotten in there. Use compressed air to clean them out. I would avoid using any cotton or fabric.

I had a mobo(ECS) for a few years with few problems. When I went to add more ram the other two slots wouldn't work. I dunno why.

Yeah I used compressed air, the whole inside of my cpu was dust free Think I'll have to reinstall my system+borrow new RAM and a feeder to find out whats wrong as I want to upgrade my gpu+ram in the nearest future (like before StarCraft 2 comes out ;p).

Bummer

You excited about D3? I personally haven't liked blizzard games since broodwars. I still play Diablo 1 and SC/BW. I will probably get SC3. Dunno about D3 though, it's barely Diablo anymore. I'm having trouble discerning one blizzard game from the other, graphics wise. Pretty soon they will release World of DiabloStarWarCraft, which will gross them trillions of dollars a day for ten years. Ok, my rant is done

I'm a huge Blizzard fan since warcraft 1 (I was like 7years old back then, good times) and I enjoy every game they make. Though I'd prefer Diablo3 to be more like Diablo 1 than like Diablo2 with WoW features (enchants etc), it should be "darker" etc. And please no more mmos, wow ruined my social life =D

But blizz games ain't the main reason I want a stable and fast cpu - atm I'm studying applied computer science and I need a fast computer. Besides the memory problem my cpu is kinda noisy, thinks it's either the cpu fan or the feeder fan (dont think its the gpu fan as I lowered it's rmp to the lowest I could using RivaTuner and I couldn't hear any difference, only after getting 100% rmp i could hear it loudly) but well thats a problem for another topic

Ok I solved the problem in a very easy way - simply by updating the BIOS. At least I think it's solved now - been working in dual channel for over 3 hours. This mobo is one of the first ones with 965 chipset and it still was running on BIOS v1.0, updated to v13 so no wonder it had some memory issues.

P.S. sorry for double posting, but for some strange reason I'm not able to edit my posts.

I think after a certain period of time(5 mins?) you can't edit em. Glad to here you got it working!