Being an AMD Tech, it shouldn't matter about dual channel, it will just lock the one in single channel.
I believe your stick of ram just may be bad. If its slower, your board should default to what memory speed you put in it.
Maybe try RMA'ing it and go from there.
Easiest way would be to obviously format the whole drive in partitoins in setup.
Is the whole drive set as 1 partition? If so, you won't be able to. If its alrady partitioned a little bit, right click on My Computer and go to Manage. Then click on Disk Manager.
1 18 ms 7 ms 9 ms 10.
2 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms gig2-1.cntnoh2-ybr1.neo.rr.com [24.164.102.133]
3 12 ms 8 ms 8 ms srp12-0.ncntoh1-rtr1.neo.rr.com [24.164.101.13]
4 * 13 ms 27 ms son0-0-2.ncntoh1-rtr0.neo.rr.com [65.25.128.237]
5 18 ms 30 ms 20 ms son3-0-3.mtgmoh1-rtr0.columbus.rr.com [65.25.128.210]
6 23 ms 28 ms 21 ms te-3-2.car1.Cincinnati1.Level3.net [4.78.216.13]
7 23 ms 28 ms 41 ms ae-11-11.car2.Cincinnati1.Level3.net [4.69.132.210]
8 * 39 ms * ae-2-2.ebr2.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.69.132.214]
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 60 ms 56 ms 55 ms ae-14-55.car4.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.68.122.144]
12 59 ms 67 ms 77 ms THE-PLANET.car4.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.71.122.2]
13 138 ms 167 ms 64 ms te7-2.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.87.253.26]
14 54 ms 67 ms 56 ms vl42.dsr02.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.91]
15 73 ms 103 ms 64 ms gi1-0-1.car17.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.69]
16 54 ms 60 ms 56 ms 55.b3.1243.static.theplanet.com [67.18.179.85]
Trace complete.
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If you already on the socket 939.....please do NOT upgrade to AM2. It is ONLY a 1-2% increase in "most" benchmarks.
I am still on socket 754 with my sempron, and will be waiting until K8L comes out in Q107. Then I will be quad cored
I have to say......I have it installed, and love it.
They say there is no way besides having a DVD burner......but who hasn't heard of Daemon Tools? Simply mount the image to a "vritual" dvd drive and you can install through windows on a seperate partition.
M64's are OK for overclocking, like you said, the multi is unlocked, although you cant go higher (i dont think) only lower multilier.
If you want a good overclocker on the cheap, look into a Socket 754 Sempron.
I have a 1.6ghz sempron stock, running at 2.4 and limited by my damn BIOS (only goes up to 300 fsb) sooo