Hi Techsupport,
I'm new here so bear with me :smile:
I just bought a bunch of new hardware, everything is working fine except I can't get the motherboard to accept RAM placed to run in dual channel.
My spec is the following:
Asus Crosshair Formula IV AM3 socket
Phenom II X6 1090t black edition
HIS Radeon 6950 (Bios flashed it to a 6970, no problems there)
Corsair TX850W
Corsair SSD 80gb HDD
2x4gb Corsair Dominator CL9 RAM
Now in the motherboard there's 4 sockets, 2 black and 2 red. Of course as you know if I have 2x4 ram sticks I would use either the 2 red or 2 black ones first to get them running dual channel.
When building it I used the 2 black sockets, no problems installing operating system and installing all my stuff. I then turned off the pc normally, and the next morning when I power it up there's no picture on the screen.
I tryed some things with the graphics card, thinking maybe something was wrong because of the bios flash I did on it.
I then try removing 1 of the ram sticks and it works! I then switch out the ram stick with the one I just took out thinking it was faulty, but it works! I then try using the 2 red sockets instead of the 2 black ones, it doesn't work. Then I test the ram sockets individually and they all work. I then try using 1 black and 1 red socket, that works too, but of course they only run single channel that way.
I tryed puzzling a bit with some voltage in the bios for the ram, setting it up a bit but with no luck.
Now I of course looked in the manual, which explains what I already knew and had tryed.
So the only thing I can think of is that the motherboard is defective. I'm not sure if you could say its the socket, because when not running dual channel it works just fine!!
I'm becoming very frustrated over this and hope you can help me.
Thanks a lot in advance! :grin:
