Hi, hopefully quick & easy question: is it ok to put in 4 sticks of 512mb memory into this board?

The manual really doesn't show this as an option, though it implies it. Had 2 - 512mb in 2 of the slots & bought another 2 for the other 2 slots, then trouble.

Thanks!

Hi MikeBoa,
A useful and quick test to see if its likely to be a hardware or software issue is to run a Live distro of Linux from CD.....this will run entirely in RAM and not write to your hard drive at all... It does not involve starting up Windows at all,so any problems there are by-passed.
Naturally it will be a bit slower than accessing Windows from your hard drive....

here's two sites from which you can download either Linux Puppy or Ubuntu
http://www.puppylinux.com/about.htm
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vis...ndows-computer/
Don't worry about the title of the second link..just check it out!

If you decide to download Puppy then you will need a working computer to download the iso and then burn it to CD. (You must burn it as an image not just copy the data....see second link)
You will then be able to boot from the CD (altering the bios to allow this if necessary)

The Linux Puppy operating system then will run from memory and enable you to throughly check out your machine......if it works Ok on Puppy without crashing after an extended trial then you will know where the culprit is!
If it crashes as before then its likely a hardware problem.

Neither of the two Linux distributions (Puppy or Ubuntu) need a knowledge of Linux to use them...they are pretty intuitive and will allow you to surf the Web, access your emails etc..and best of all when you close down the machine and remove the CD all the Linux (that is running in memory) disappears !
Hope this helps
Regards
paws