For owners of an ASUS A8V Deluxe Motherboard Only

[campisia]

OK, here is my problem. I recently built my own PC. The computer consists of an ASUS motherboard A8V Deluxe, an AMD 64 FX 53 processor running at 2400Mhz using a core clock of 200Mhz, Hyper Transport is running at 1000Mhz (2000Mhz Both ways) and Corsair TWINX2048-3200PRO 2048MB DDR400 XMS3200 with 3-3-3-8 latency settings. I will not mention the video or sound card because it is not part of the problem. The BIOS was updated to 1006. OK, here is my problem. When the post screen displays information, I DO NOT SEE DUAL CHANNEL ENABLED DURING THE POST SCREEN. I see regular cpu information and disk drive information. For memory I just see; NVRAM 2048. THAT'S IT!
Nothing mentioning dual channel. I did run benchmarks like cpuz and Sandra, CPUZ gives dual by the memory section, and Sandra scores 4800 for memory, which is above the 3200 for single channel. My question is this, IS DUAL CHANNEL WORKING BUT NOT DISPLAYING DURING POST? IF ANYONE HAS AN ASUS A8V DELUXE MOTHERBOARD TELL ME IF DUAL CHANNEL DISPLAYS DURING POST, WHAT MEMORY YOUR ARE USING AND WHAT BIOS SETTINGS YOU ARE USING. Just more information about my bios. The memory section contains automatic settings and, NOTHING IS OVERCLOCKED!!! Someone please help me, because I am really confused about this dual channel business. Thanks!

 

[mechBgon]

I think you are forgetting that the Athlon64 architecture doesn't have motherboard-based memory controllers. They're inside the CPU. One of them is physically wired to one pair of memory slots, the other one to the other pair. When both memory controllers are working, that's dual-channel a la AMD64.

If you come from an Intel background, this concept might seem strange to you. An Intel i865/i875 board does have the option to run two modules in single-channel mode. Your system doesn't. If the memory is in slots connected to two separate memory controllers (which you say it is), and both modules are being recognized (which you say they are), then both memory controllers are working, and that is dual-channel AMD64. There are no other options, unless you can think of a magic way that both modules can connect to one memory controller without any circuit traces. Wireless RAM?

Please don't keep posting this question over and over just because you don't like the correct answer. Thanks bro