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That's probably the most your machine you can take. The motherboard that is. head over to http://www.crucial.com/ and use the memory scanner to see what the maximum amount your computer can have at one time. Other things like OS version might have something to do with it. But, if you are running XP 32-bit, I would not bother with XP-64. (also depends how old your machine is. (referring to weather you should upgrade the OS or not) I'd wait for Windows 7. It's going to wonderful.

Let me know if that helps.

try this. Though, do it at your own risk.

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1197060849

Possibly that ram might be bad too. Just giving some possible answers.

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