Asus P4PE with 2 512 RAM and playing LOTR probs HELP

[Big8oy]

My friend just got a second stick of Corsair 512mb PC 3200 C2 ram and when he tries to play LOTR Battle for Middle Earth the system reboots when he's trying to start a level. He has an older system but is running a P4 2.53 with 2 sticks of 512 Corsair PC3200 C2 in an Asus P4PE MB. I tried to make everything stock speeds with the lowest RAM settings and it still reboots when he tries to start a level to play. The system works fine with 1 stick in there. I was wondering if anyone knew what was going on. He already flashed to the latest bios too. I'm stumped. I know it's an old board and so couldn't really get too much from a search. Heard the board isn't too stable with 2 sticks of RAM, is this the problem? Anyone has any ideas? Thanks

 

[Matthias99]

Try memtest86 and prime95? If it can't pass those, your hardware is malfunctioning at a low level (either bad RAM, or a bad motherboard, or a bad CPU, or some combination of the above).

If both those pass, try looping 3DMark01 for a while. Could be a heat buildup issue, or flaky power.

 

[Big8oy]

thanks for the tips, but the thing is he isn't even playing the game for awhile, it's when he loads the level then it reboots. I think it could be bad RAM, thing is he is able to load the level with either stick in there by itself but when there are 2 in there it wont load the level. I'll have him run some of the memtests. But i find it weird since he's been playing the game for awhile now and near the end it wont start the level.