monitor wont work with 2 sticks of ram.

I just purchased an Asus Mb and 2 (1 gig) sticks of ram. It will only allow my monitor to come on if I have 1 stick in it. Of course it is in slot one. I dont wanna have to send my motherboard back and have to wait. if you know anything i can try id appreciate it. thanks for all the help in advance.


oh one more thing . there are only 2 slots for ram on my motherboard. my mb supports 800mhz. and my sticks are both 800mhz 1 gig kingston. and both sticks work.

 

1) Newer systemboards don't care which slot you use so try the memory in the other slot. This will let you know if it is a bad slot or,
2) Unless they are exactly the same, matched memory, you need to disable interleaving in the BIOS. Interleaving gives a slight improvement in performance by alternating which DIMM it uses; but, requires the memory run with the same timing.
Get the free version of this for testing: Memtest86

 

In addition to the above, try both sticks individually. Memtest won't tell which of the two is the bad one. If they work individually but not together, try running a BIOS update, and also try booting to BIOS and check that the timings and RAM voltage are what Kingston specify for their parts.