I have some RAM problems i think

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sumik

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My specs
P4 1.7ghz
1GB SDRAM
80GB Western Digital HDD
GeeForce 5700FX 128mb
unknown motherboard and PSU

So I bought 512 of RAM so I could have 1GB in totall and did format. After the format my comp is running sh*tty, like slower. Whenever I run Counter Strike 1.6 which doesn't need much it lags a lot, I get a lot of ghosting and lag. So I looked on the forums here and from sticky I downloaded the program MemTest. I run it and I can't even test my whole RAM because a Message pops out:
Your version of Windows limits the ammount of contiguous Ram a single program can allocate. You will have to run two copies of MemTest, and tell each to test 200mb of Ram.

Do any of u know what that means ? From what i figured out is that each program has a limit to using 200mb of Ram. Isn't that weird ? Maybe that's why I don't Bother to play Battlefield 2 on my machine cuz whenever i put it on it lags like crazy and i just turn it off and don't bother trying again for a long time.

Any help on this ?
 
there was no need for the format, unless you wanted to clean your HDD.

Anyways, have you installed all the video drivers for your gfx card?

Also try taking out the new memory stick and booting up, see if things return to normal
 
Yeah I needed a complete clean out :)
All drivers are installed, even got newest drivers from websites.
 
Yeah, i agree that you should remove the new stick and see how it works. Could be a defective stick. If not then maybe theres a setting somewhere in windows allowing certain mem usage.

I know one for virtual mem. navigate to Start/and right click on my computer/under system properties screen then click on the advanced tab/ click settings under performance/click advanced tab/here you can change the memory settings/ under virtual mem hit change/select system managed size and click set/ok

If this dosent work then i have no idea but ill look more into it
 
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