Ram woes

[Servo]

Please forgive the cross-post...
I have a home built machine running Win XP with a Gigabyte mbo that
supports 2 gig of ram. When I first built the system I installed a 512
meg Corsair ram stick and it worked perfectly, a month ago I added an
IDENTICAL ram stick, and it worked perfectly. Yesterday I added another
IDENTICAL ran stick and it brought my system to its knees. The BIOS
recognizes the new RAM OK, and the system boots up but very slowly.
Programs that used to work great keep crashing. Is there something I
need to know about running Win XP with more than 1 gig of ram?
TIA for any help!

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[R. McCarty]

Is it an Intel CPU, if so does your BIOS have Ram set for
Dual Channel mode ?

 

[Servo]

Is it an Intel CPU, if so does your BIOS have Ram set for
Dual Channel mode ?

Oops....sorry it'a an AMD 2800....I'll check the BIOS settings
when I get home tonite.


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Servo

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whatever it is"

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[Jeff McAhren]

My mobo has four memory slots, but two are for DDR, the other two are for
sdram, and they can not be used simultaneously. Are you sure that all of
your slots can be used simultaneously? Sorry if this is really basic or
non-applicable to your situation. I'm definitely no expert in those
matters, in fact, nowhere even close.