Greetings Hugh--

If all of your DIMMS are identical, and all of them conform to the vendor standards in the A8V manual, I think you may have a case for a factory exchange of your motherboard. If I'm looking at the correct model manual, the memory information is on page 2.11. There is mention made there that system boot failure may be a result of using memory not found on ASUS's approved table on page
2.13, and a number of other important notes are indicated.

HTH and good luck.

Paul A. Shippert
Library Media Specialist
Margaret Brent Middle School
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> Board is ASUS 8VA, Deluxe, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ with 4 slots for DDR 3200 400
> FSB.I have 4 of these modules (512 MB). XP Home.
> The Blue slots are designated to be filled first, and they work fine. When I
> fill the additional 2 slots, I get no boot. I've switched the modules around
> and they all work in the blue slots.
> I changed the CAS latency from Auto to 2.0, but no joy.
> Is this a bad memory slot, or is there something else I can try?
>
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