   What would you do?
  What would you do on this?I've been trouble-shooting my brother's gaming computer this week and I've tracked the problem down to a bad memory connector on the motherboard.There are 3 connectors numbered 1 to 3, with the first two sharing the same piece of plastic and the third one separate.  The third connector and both sticks of DDR check out fine on overnight memtest runs.  The number 1 socket originally gave me multiple errors when it had memory installed and now it won't even read memory at all, just causing the computer to beep continuously at start-up.  Socket 2, attached to socket 1, also won't read any memory.  They are basically shot from what I can tell.So, I'm stuck with his machine having a single 512MB in slot 3.My options as I see them are:1. Put a single 1GB in slot 3.2. Buy a new MOBO, put both 512's back in and redo everything.What do I REALLY lose if I'm not running dual channel?  Changing out the MOBO is a pain in the ass, especially since I will most likely have to re-install windows and he only has one hard drive, a SATA, which his windows re-install disk doesn't recognize automatically anyway.Any advice is appreciated...   
  I'd change the mobo.  It's the broken bit, so why buy unnecessarily another working RAM stick just to make a broken mobo happy?Besides, a new mobo will most likely give you scope for new upgrades (if the old one doesn't have PCI-E for example).   ;Quote:Original post by ukdeveloperI'd change the mobo.  It's the broken bit, so why buy unnecessarily another working RAM stick just to make a broken mobo happy?Besides, a new mobo will most likely give you scope for new upgrades (if the old one doesn't have PCI-E for example).Yeah, I guess I have been leaning that way myself, even if my original plan didn't involve re-doing the whole thing.I may take this opportunity to boost up his processor as well.