Furst time AMD builder needs direction on RAM installation

[v3rax]

This is my first AMD build. When I install 2 sticks of RAM, do I put BOTH sticks in the same color slots, or one in one color and the other in the other color?

My Gigabyte has 2 orange and 2 yellow. How should it be installed?

 

[taltamir]

that depends on your motherboard, read its manual as it varies from manufacturer to manufacturer. has nothing to do with AMD vs Intel though.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: v3rax
This is my first AMD build. When I install 2 sticks of RAM, do I put BOTH sticks in the same color slots, or one in one color and the other in the other color?

My Gigabyte has 2 orange and 2 yellow. How should it be installed?

DIMM1 and DIMM3 (1 yellow, 1 orange)

 

[v3rax]

OK, right now I have both of them in the 2 orange slots because my CPU cololer blocks the yellow ones. With both of them in the orange, it still says during boot that I have 4096 mb RAM and the boot test is successs.

However, I keep getting the BOSD... could having both of them in the orange slots instead of seperating them to 1orange and uellow like you suggested fix my BOSD problem?

My CPU is brand new PII 940
Mobo is brand new Gigabyte MA790X-UD4
Hyper 850 PSU
MSI 4870 1gb
Latest drivers installed. but I keep gettting BOSD

Could having both memory sticks in the same color do that?

I know that on an INTEL system you put one in one color and another in the other color, but I thought with AMD systems, they both go in the same color?????

Thanks

 

[exar333]

Check your motherboard guide, it should state what colored slots are what in the Memory section.

If you are in single-channel and it is BSOD, then I would be suprised if switching to dual-channel would make it more stable...it's usually the other way around.

 

[taltamir]

R-T-F-M!
It says it in your motherboards manual and it is DIFFERENT from each motherboard to the next!
There is a convention, but a fair number of companies ignore it, so its useless.