Hi,  when you say you interchanged them, do you mean you removed one and 
just tried to boot up with one of them at a time? If not, maybe you 
should try that before returning the motherboard. Did you say you know 
the CPU is good?

Mandi

jimi moore wrote:
>  I just have two 2048 matching ram sticks and have interchanged them a 
> few times. I haven't pulled the cpu yet so I may try that. I have 
> replaced cpu's before and I think I got the paste on right but who 
> knows. It just acts like the mb is dead.
>
> Thanks,
>
> jimi
>
>

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