Your motherboard will only see dual channel . Doesn't matter if you have triple channel memory . Your motherboard could see 6GB of ram if the memory sticks are 2GB each on every stick but not a triple channel kit . Meaning you buy 3 sticks of 2GB single sticks .
Hopefully you didn't talk to the Fry's tech in BurBank LOL .
Ok... I'm back. It's been about 5 months since the last post.
I ended up testing the sticks in my computer one at a time by using 2 Corsair sticks only and seeing if it blue screened. After trail and error, with different sticks, I ended up using two 2Gb Corsair sticks and didn't get a blue screen. I added two 1Gb sticks that came with the machine. Now I am running two 2Gb (Corsair) + two 1Gb sticks for a total of 6Gb. Since I guess about 5 months now, my computer randomly blue screened twice. Still have no idea why but its a far cry from what it was doing before- blue screening every day once of not twice. I deem this problem solved. I will try to return the one "bad" Corsair stick back to Corsair for exchange or refund.
Just wanted to give closure here and thank you all for your help and input.
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