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Morning all,
Recently purchased a G.Skill 2x2GB DDR2 CAS5 Dual Channel Kit to go with a new build ive put together.
First of i was having problems installing XP Home Edition, it was stopping in the copying files stage. I eventually found the culprit was one of the memory sticks. Having just one installed in the board (Gigabyte GA-EP45-DQ6) saw XP install ok.
Once XP was on i reinstalled the other stick of memory and continued. But when i tried to install some drivers from a CD the comp kept on freezing meaning i had to reset. I took the offending stick out again and all is well?
Does this mean its a bad stick? Or is there a setting in my mobo BIOS ive got to turn on for it to be able to use 4gb properly? I know XP can handle 4gb but only use/see around 3gb but do you have to tell it to use both sticks?
Cheers for any help.
Recently purchased a G.Skill 2x2GB DDR2 CAS5 Dual Channel Kit to go with a new build ive put together.
First of i was having problems installing XP Home Edition, it was stopping in the copying files stage. I eventually found the culprit was one of the memory sticks. Having just one installed in the board (Gigabyte GA-EP45-DQ6) saw XP install ok.
Once XP was on i reinstalled the other stick of memory and continued. But when i tried to install some drivers from a CD the comp kept on freezing meaning i had to reset. I took the offending stick out again and all is well?
Does this mean its a bad stick? Or is there a setting in my mobo BIOS ive got to turn on for it to be able to use 4gb properly? I know XP can handle 4gb but only use/see around 3gb but do you have to tell it to use both sticks?
Cheers for any help.