ASUS A7V600 memory problem

CdnAtWork

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Feb 16, 2004
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First, here's my setup

Codegen 6066-CA case
ASUS A7V600 400FSB, SATA, Gbit LAN 6.1, Audio, 8xUSB, With Bios Rev 1006
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton Core 333MHz 512KB L2 Cache (overclocked to 3200+)
Vantec Aeroflow Heatsink with Arctic Silver 5 compound (keeps me around 45 at full load while overclocked)
2 Infineon 256MB PC3200 400MHz DDR Memory
ATI Radeon 9200 128 DDR with wxp-w2k-catalyst-7-981-040127m-013420c Drivers
80GB Maxtor HD 8mb
LG CD/RW 24x10x40
OKIA 420w ATX P4 Power Supply

Okay, so this board officially supports ddr 400 in only 2 slots. I have 2 sticks of ram and everything is okay if i put them in slots 1 and 3, but if i put a stick in the second slot, memtest pretty much craps itself (thousands of errors).
Is it possible that the ddr ram must be placed in 1 and 3 slots, or is it just likely that the second slot is defective and i need to replace the board.

Thanks in advance.
Cdn
 

Boonesmi

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Feb 19, 2001
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i have a couple systems using that exact same board (asus a7v600) and none of them have problems using dimm slot 1 and 2

my guess would be a defective memory slot... but it could also just be the memory and motherboard just arent totally compatable ??