Back a while ago, I posted a "memory management" problem with my home win2k
machine. Now I believe I have the answer. I believe the mobo (ASUS A7V) is
the problem. Sounds strange, but that's all I could find.

The story should start from Friday night, I never checked ASUS PC Probe for
system details, I only use it as a temperature/voltage/fan speed monitor
(the most important reason since from day one, I overclocked the CPU). Win2k
build-in utilities provide more info, so that I had no need to use PC Probe
for such purpose. However, I spotted something "wrong" when I first time
opened up PC Probe's DMI Explorer, it shows "Memory Module #2: Installed
64Mb, Enabled 64Mb", but I have 2 stick of 128Mb RAM and anywhere else
report 256Mb RAM in total. Then I swapped RAM (DIMM1 <-> DIMM2), same
result. Then I moved RAM from DIMM2 to DIMM3, system "crash". Any RAM in the
3rd RAM slot would crash win2k, only #1 & 2 "work", and only RAM in slot #1
would show "Installed 128Mb, Enabled 128Mb" in PC Probe.

Now is Sunday, I couldn't do anything at weekend, I will replace the mobo
tomorrow (if possible), and let the list know how things going.

Jun Qian

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