asus P5N-E sli Really slow

[Kayel]

Asus P5N-e SLI
core 2 duo E6850 3.00
vid cards: Nvida 7950
win7 64 bit
ram: 4g kingston pc2-8500
Computers really slow I've cross checked everything with my computer and everything works when hooked up to my gaming system and its a 780i. I have flashed the bios nothing improved. When its posting it shows 256 MB ram and as I've stated there is 4gb in it. The other problem is the hard drive was wiped and its really slow at doing the loading of that.

[Allan]

1) To check the ram, download memtest (http://memtest.org/). Burn it to a cd using a dedicated .iso burning utility (http://www.petri.co.il/how_to_write_iso_files_to_cd.htm), make sure the cd drive is at the top of the boot order in bios, then boot to the newly created cd and run the utility.

2) I don't understand the last sentence of your post ("the hd was wiped and it's really slow ad doing the loading of that")

[patio]

Why did you flash the BIOS ? ?

The RAM being mis-reported is the 1st clue...
Ram /memory info starts on Page 2.4 in the owners manual.

I have the same MBoard and never saw a BIOS flash issued that was needed since i bought it new years ago...