I recently found time to swap out my old motherboard for a new one. The two mobo's are identical, and the new one will replace the old as referenced in this post. Figuring my luck with hardware combined with the process of replacing mobo's would take me all day, I put off this task for nearly two months.

As it turns out, the process of switching the boards took me less than one hour. Wow! I could not believe it either. After installing the board, and inserting all four 512 MB sticks of RAM, I was experiencing the same errors when starting the machine. My final conclusion, the ASUS AV7880 Socket A motherboard is not compatible with four sticks of 512 MB Corsair TWINX1024-3200C2PT.

I am deciding if I should be satisfied with running three sticks of 512, or purchase RAM that is on the list of qualified hardware for this board. What is another 512 MB worth?