3Gb RAM but my PC is halting

[spacecat9]

ASUS A8N-SLI Premium 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard

This innovative board takes full advantage of SLI technology, supporting a maximum of 4 GB DDR RAM

So its not the motherboard so as refereed to earlyer i would check the slot and also check that you running memory of the same speed eg ddr800 or ddr1024. it may cause and issue on certain board however usually the board will default to the slower setting.

Another thing you can do is go in to your bios and select the fail safe setting to See if it works the this is effectively running your memory at the slowest speed possable. after you know it work you can increase it bit by bit . i got caught buying ram on ebay from god knows where it was ment to be ddr800 but i Had to slow the ram timing down to make it work. but that machine still runs fine and its not that slow.

[spacecat9]

you can also change the maximum memory the computer thinks it has. in control panel- administration tools - system configuration - select the boot tab - then set the memory to the amount you should have. these instruction are for vista. so it was only an idea maybe x64 professional the same function,

[BC_Programmer]

uh, that kind of an answer REALLY helps out ....by the way I have been using TwnMOSS a lot of years without any problems...

Have you run MemTest on the RAM?

See if it has problems. Even if it does have problems- it might not be the memory-it could also be the PSU or even the wall socket.

[BC_Programmer]

So its not the motherboard so as refereed to earlyer i would check the slot and also check that you running memory of the same speed eg ddr800 or ddr1024. it may cause and issue on certain board however usually the board will default to the slower setting.

you mean ddr1066?


DDR266 = PC2100
DDR333 = PC2700
DDR400 = PC3200
DDR2-400 = PC2-3200
DDR2-533 = PC2-4200
DDR2-667 = PC2-5300
DDR2-800 = PC2-6400
DDR3-800 = PC3-6400
DDR3-1066 = PC3-8500
DDR3-1333 = PC3-10600
DDR3-1600 = PC3-12800

[patio]

uh, that kind of an answer REALLY helps out ....by the way I have been using TwnMOSS a lot of years without any problems...

Well i wish you luck...

[Blade285]

DDR266 = PC2100
DDR333 = PC2700
DDR400 = PC3200
DDR2-400 = PC2-3200
DDR2-533 = PC2-4200
DDR2-667 = PC2-5300
DDR2-800 = PC2-6400
DDR3-800 = PC3-6400
DDR3-1066 = PC3-8500
DDR3-1333 = PC3-10600
DDR3-1600 = PC3-12800

Missed out on DDR2-1066 PC2 8500

[Peterwolfe]

ok, will try all those suggestions, cool answers I can work with...and my old packlist says:

DDR-DIMM PC3200 512 Mb DDR CL2.5 Memory 184-P (for DDR-PC400Mhz)

Spacecat9: ...in control panel- administration tools - system configuration - select the boot tab - " not visible in XP

[Peterwolfe]

MEMtest ok, no errors, used only 1 time run at 1024, 2048 and 3000Mb with complete coverage

[Peterwolfe]

Tried today with RAMcleaner and that software just gives 2048Mb free, so NOT a word about the rest of the 3gbs...lol....more and more confusing...