<div dir="ltr">Part 2 YES! and so can bad power. NEVER use a crappy, cheap, light in weight, power supply no matter what the sticker says it is rated at. I once knew of a vendor of computer parts in Norcross who had power supplies without stickers and put what ever sticker on the power supply that the customer wanted (back in those days something like 150, 200 or 250 Watt) on the same supplies. I expect the quality of even crappy power supplies is better now than then (nearly 30 years ago), but when it comes to power supplies, you pretty much get what you pay for and heavier power supplies have more capacity to maintain the rated output, esp in noisy AC supply environments.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Boris Borisov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bugyatl@gmail.com" target="_blank">bugyatl@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Ok I did put them in two slots 0 and 1 which were in blue color. But memtest still shows single channel mode. Maybe is bios option or something else I didn't had time to play. PC is part from equipment buried behind wires so no time to do it twice.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thanks for all opinions.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Part 2 question:</p>
<p dir="ltr">Can bad memory ruin Windows install?</p><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 25, 2016 3:38 PM, "Greg Clifton" <<a href="mailto:gccfof5@gmail.com" target="_blank">gccfof5@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Yes, start with the lowest numbered slots as mentioned above 0 or 1 as the case may be, but the like colored slots should be labeled 0A and 0B or 1A and 1B and 2A and 2B, and so forth. Most motherboards can work with a single memory module installed and in a single CPU motherboard, it probably won't matter which color slots you use, but in order to benefit from the dual channel nature (and thus best memory performance) of the motherboard, put the modules in like colored slots. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 3:06 PM, DJ-Pfulio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:djpfulio@jdpfu.com" target="_blank">djpfulio@jdpfu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>On 02/25/2016 12:36 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:<br>
> I have 2 sticks by 2gb. My mobo has 4 slots 2 dark and 2 light colored. Where<br>
> should I insert sticks to get dual channel working.<br>
><br>
> No Google time. Don't shoot me :)<br>
<br>
</div></div>Every motherboard is different, so if you don't look it up, you'll never know.<br>
<br>
RTFM for the motherboard.<br>
<br>
Put them in the same colored slots starting with slot 0. That should be safe to<br>
get the most performance.<br>
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