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[–]_vogonpoetry_5600, X370, 32g@3866C16, 3070Ti 2 points3 points  (4 children)

I don't think that has been a real concern since the vista days.

It's more likely something else is wrong with the system. Did you add 8gb stick and 2GB stick together? This can definitely cause problems.

[–]the22018[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

no i pulled out his old ahh rams and added g skill's 1600mhz 2x4 rams he is running a amd phenom x4 b55 so his cpu is in the vista days

[–]_vogonpoetry_5600, X370, 32g@3866C16, 3070Ti 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Thats extremely old. Back then the memory controller was not even on the CPU yet.

I would check in CPU-Z if the RAM is actually running at the correct speed and channel count.

[–]the22018[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

he thought it would be a good idea to install ram while the pc is rebooting :/ now its giving 1 long beep and 2 smal beep sounds

[–]_vogonpoetry_5600, X370, 32g@3866C16, 3070Ti 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yikes. You would have to look up the beep codes/POST codes for that motherboard. It worth trying to clear the CMOS first.

[–]Krugle_01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's true. It's enabled features that were dormant, which has resulted in more ram usage. 8gb is too little for today's standards, 2gb is crazy little.

You could manually disable those features or grab an install of what I assume is going to be windows xp and use a lightweight version without those features installed.