No DIMM in slot 1, will it boot?

Emyr · Post by **Emyr** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:17 am

Just bought parts for a new computer for my brother from ebuyer.co.uk:

P182 gunmetal
Corsair 450W PSU (aka S12)
MSI K9n neo V3 motherboard
AMD 64 X2 3000+
Ninja RevB
2 x 1GB Ballistix DDR2-800
Samsung Spinpoint HD501 SATA
Sapphire HD3870

When I looked at it before buying, I made sure the Ninja wouldn't overhang the board and thereby not fit in the P182. My problem is now that there's no way a DIMM will fit in the nearest slot to the CPU because of the Ninja.

Anyone got this board and fancy trying to boot it with an empty first slot?

mkk · Post by **mkk** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 4:40 am

Should have a fair chance of working but you could always check if the manual says anything about whether the first slot has to be occupied.

jhhoffma · Post by **jhhoffma** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:08 am

Shouldn't matter...the only thing it can affect is dual channel mode, but as long as your able to access the other two DIMM slots, you'll be fine.

sitalchauhan · Post by **sitalchauhan** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:30 pm

On my Asus mobo I have both RAm sticks in the B slots and it boots perfect and in dual channel

Emyr · Post by **Emyr** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:38 pm

Cheers all!

Need to make the damn thing output video before I can check the memory, but you bring me good omens