Motherboard memory slot dead??

[Kellian1]

Hi All posted this in motherboard section but thought it really belonged here sorry for double post,

I have the socket 754 athlon 64bit K8ns-Pro gigabyte motherboard. Recently games ive been playing have been totally freezing up and crashing out to the desktop. After many different troubleshooting options I come to find that perhaps the memory slots on the motherboard are bad.

I had 2x512 Crucial Memory sticks in 2 of the slots. It appears I only have 1 working slot for memory on my board the other 2 are fubar. What I did was took the middle memory slot chip out and booted up the computer....had no freeze or crash. I then swapped the chip in the computer into the middle slot....computer wouldnt even boot up...repeated this for the 3rd slot.

So is it safe to assume that I need a new motherboard as these 2 memory slots are dead?? The wierd thing is it would (when both chips where installed) read the memory as 1GB in bios, but it would freeze or crash when running any game.

Also I dont overclock so thats not an issue, the k8ns-pro is a good,solid 64 Bit motherboard right? anyone else with suggestion for a good socket 754 MOBO?

 

[bendixG15]

Did you run memtest86 on each stick..one at a time ??
and
Did you check the mobo manual that you had the stick in the
correct memory slot ???
and
Did you check the BIOS that you got the correct settings ??
and
Did you check that you pushed the sticks way into the memory slot ??
and
Good Luck ..............