My motherboard supports 4 x DDR DIMM slots but I havne't used all slots yet. So far it has been 1 x Kingston 1024mb stick in one coloured channel (blue) and in the other 2 black channels I have 2 x 256mb Kingmax sticks of ram; thus amounting to about 1.5gb of ram though it was only working at single channel memory so I figure it was really working only at 512mb (tell me if I'm wrong).
Anyhow, I recently bought a new Kingston 1024mb stick to pair with my other one of the same model type. Popped the badboy in and was working at DUAL CHANNEL MEMORY!! . However pre-memory installation my cpu was overclocked to about 2.45ghz (stock was 2.0) and have never had a problem with it, no temperature problems or crashing.
Post-memory installation however computer didn't startup until a few attempted restarts then I got back into my BIOS thanks to BootGuard. Everything seemed fine, says I'm working at dual channel memory so I save and exit and everything seemed fine until I realized I was working back at 2.0ghz. I figure this is because BootGuard resetted my CPU to its default settings to ensure it was working fine. I also tried switching the two 1gb sticks of ram, however THEN I couldn't get the startup screen and BIOS anymore. So I switched back the two 1gb sticks to previously and it's workign again but I'm working back at 2.0ghz. Anybody have ideas what's the problem here and why I can't overclock anymore??
man that was long
Anyhow, I recently bought a new Kingston 1024mb stick to pair with my other one of the same model type. Popped the badboy in and was working at DUAL CHANNEL MEMORY!! . However pre-memory installation my cpu was overclocked to about 2.45ghz (stock was 2.0) and have never had a problem with it, no temperature problems or crashing.
Post-memory installation however computer didn't startup until a few attempted restarts then I got back into my BIOS thanks to BootGuard. Everything seemed fine, says I'm working at dual channel memory so I save and exit and everything seemed fine until I realized I was working back at 2.0ghz. I figure this is because BootGuard resetted my CPU to its default settings to ensure it was working fine. I also tried switching the two 1gb sticks of ram, however THEN I couldn't get the startup screen and BIOS anymore. So I switched back the two 1gb sticks to previously and it's workign again but I'm working back at 2.0ghz. Anybody have ideas what's the problem here and why I can't overclock anymore??
man that was long