Vista and RAM Question????

Done what?

 

Had faulty components. I've had a LOT.
Here's what components I can remember being faulty, or got broken by something else faulty over the years:
Memory card reader x 2 (inwin, Aerocool Coolpanel)
Power supply x 2 (Qtec 450, Ebuyer extra value Magna 600 (what did I expect? lol))
Stick of memory x 3 (1 single, and 1 of a set of 2 on two occasions - Samsung 512MB PC2700C2.5 got fried, Elixir 512MB PC3200C3 failed after a year, Corsair 2x512MB PC6400C5 DOA)
Floppy drive fried
CD Writer x2 (broke, RMAed and the replacement broke within a week)
Hard disk x 3 (one fried by bad PSU, the others fried by bad PSU cable - guilty PSU Qtec 450W, Guilty PSU cable came with Hiper Type-R)
Fan (shorted out the power supply)
Fan controller (Explorer FX-4, output voltage too low)
Speakers x 1 set (Creative Inspire T3000, faulty volume control)
Microphone x 1
Printer x 2 (Epson Stylus 640 and 670. Power failures. I no longer buy Epson printers)
I think that's mostly it, the pairs of headphones I put down to not looking after them well enough.

Update: Forgot Asus A8N-SLI SE motherboard - chipset faults
Suppose you can count my P5N-E in there too, it doesn't run stable at Stock, so that technically makes it faulty right, even if it does run stable when overclocked? LOL

 

your thinking of xp 32 bit, it takes a max of 3Gbs

 

4GB isn't it?

 

WOW quite a list. Thats really weird that your mobo isnt stable at clock but it is stable when overclocked. Why don't you get it replaced?

 

I would but I'd rather not go without a motherboard for the moment, given the number of issues I know someone else has had with the board I'm going to swap it for a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3.

 

not accoding to some places, but i have never tried it, my ASUS manual says its 3GBs

 

Ahh but that is a limitation imposed by your motherboard, not the OS.

 

Indeed. Most new motherboards state 8GB maximum. That of course is on the presumption you're using a 64-bit OS. 32-bit will only bag you 4.