I'm really hoping that'll work error-free. I don't want to dismantle this thing and return the motherboard. I've already had enough returns. It took me a week and a half to get this new memory, and I had to drive out to the UPS shipping depot just to pick it up yesterday. ARGH! I didn't budget $100 in return shipping into my computer.

Yeah, I had a similar problem myself. Faced with the difficulty of either explaining to the memory vendor it wasn't a motherboard problem, or (more accurately) explaining to the motherboard vendor it wasn't a memory problem, I ended up just underclocking it instead.

ps-I've gotta ask: what motherboard do you have?!

That "without the help of God" comment is in the manual of the old Abit PX-5 motherboard I've still got in my home MP3 server. The new, not-working-at-rated-FSB-but-otherwise-pretty-quick motherboard is a Supermicro 370DE6.

Peter