i think the chipset drivers might have done it. there are no yellow ? marks in device manager other than the raid controller , i dont have a raid setup nor do i intend on installing one so i dont think that one is nesisary, is it??

the mobo manuel sez that if theres onley 1 ram stick it will onley work in single channel mode and for dual channel mode it needs ether 2 or 4 sticks. dose this meen if i put in another identical stick of ram it will increce the memory BW and make it work smoother? could the crashing just be from a memory BW bottleneck due to just one ram module??