RD480-Neo2 FI RAM issues

Greetings,
I've come across a bit of a RAM problem and I'm hoping someone can help me with it. I've had an RD480-Neo2 FI motherboard with an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ CPU for about two years. Originally I had 2 1gb sticks of OCZ PC3200 DDR in slots 1 and 3. The box has been rock solid the whole time running XP x64. This week I purchased the exact same 2 stick matched set to upgrade to 4gb total. However, when I first installed the two new sticks in slots 2 and 4, I was getting nothing at all when turning on the PC. No beeps, no video, etc. After some fiddling I was able to get it to boot (still not sure what was wrong) but both BIOS and Windows XP only displayed 3gb total, and I was having some serious stability issues culminating in a BSOD. I ran Memtest and was seeing some pretty horrific failures.
So I took 3 sticks out and tested each stick one at a time in slot 1, all passed. Then I took 1 stick and tested it in the other 3 slots. In slot 2 and 4, I'm getting failures on the 7th and final test, "Moving inv, ones & zeroes, no cache." I assume these slots have just been bad since the mobo was new since I've never used it before, now I've learned something I need to test in the future when buying new mobos. Was this a valid test to perform? IE, is it possible to test these slots without RAM in slots 1 and 3? If not, is there some other way I can test this to make sure this is the problem? I don't expect that MSI can really do anything for me a year outside the warranty period, and I wasn't planning on spending money on a new mobo right now...

Hello!
I have not a ready and final answer to your question, but here is a good start to help you help yourself.  Please read the FAQ:s about memory you find here:
http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=prodfaq&prod_no=219&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=&cat3_no=
A summary might be that nothing is wrong with your motherboard still, but that your combination of sticks winds up in a problematic situation.
PSU details, too, please. Two years is a long time, and wear and tear and dust is always something to look out for.

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