Hi all,

My account has been approved and I can now post here. While waiting for approval and in the meantime, I replaced the X-38 bonetrail in my wife's machine that I snagged used off e-bay for 102 bucks with my old Asus Maximus formula X-38. I practically stole a Foxconn Blackops x-48 from computer geeks so I gave her my maximus. The x-38 Bonetrail came with an E8200 Wolfdale so I don't feel so bad about what I suspect to be a bad ram channel (channel B) that manifested itself first upon boot-up. I removed channel B stick and it booted right up. I swapped the stick from channel b to a and it booted. It will not boot with any ram in channel B. I place either stick in either slot of channel A and it boots. I can place both sticks in channel A at the same time and it boots but it tells me I'm not running the ram in the best possible mode. Is this a common problem with this board to have a bad ram channel? There is only 1 set of DDR3 ram in the house to test with for now. It is a set of G-skill Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL9D-4GBNQ. Is this memory compatible with this board or does it cause the problem I described? I may have use for the board in the future so solving the memory channel B problem would be nice. Currently the board is on the shelf waiting for some TLC.

Thanks,
Paul.