Phc7006: In the end, how did you populate your ram slots ? : I understand Blue + Blue caused trouble so did you opt for, White + white or White + blue ? In the latter case, do you get dual channel ( that would mean that the memory slots have been wrongly assembled as you're supposed to use blue/blue or white/white ) or single channel ?
When the machine was first assembled, because I wanted to stick my old Hard Drive inside it together with the new, it became a bit cluttered inside the tower. Later, when I bought a new (massive sized) video board, it became even more cluttered.
So, I have 4 slots arranged in a blue-white-space-blue-white composition. The first two are free, but the other two are under the HDs and all those tape-like information cables (forgot the name).
Anyway, the guy who assembled my machine used those first two slots (Blue-White). So when the new sticks arrived I figured blue-blue would work better somehow (I wasn't exactly aware of the dual/single channel thing, but was sure something was supposed to work better). While I had stuck it to the second blue socket, some cables were constantly touching it. I'm not sure it meant anything, but I supposed that it could affect it in some way (even if it was just pressuring the stick), since I was getting memory failures.
So I changed it back to the original configuration used by the guy who assembled it first. I'm yet to check that dual/single channel thing, if it's working one way or another. I'll post here when I find out latter today.