heya. i replugged the memory and it seems to be working fine now. ty for the help you guys, i think i got it.
here is the CPUZ report if you still want to look it over -- im not a very computer savy person so maybe something is still wrong with my system? if you could check it over and tell me, i'd appreciate it.
CPU-Z Report
CPU-Z version 1.29.
CPU(s)
Number of CPUs 1
Name AMD Athlon XP
Code Name Barton
Specification AMD Athlon XP 3200+
Family / Model / Stepping 6 A 0
Extended Family / Model 7 A
Package Socket A
Technology 0.13 µ
Supported Instructions Sets MMX, Extended MMX, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE
CPU Clock Speed 2194.3 MHz
Clock multiplier x 11.0
Front Side Bus Frequency 199.5 MHz
Bus Speed 399.0 MHz
L1 Data Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L1 Instruction Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Cache 512 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Speed 2194.3 MHz (Full)
L2 Location On Chip
L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes
L2 Bus Width 64 bits
Mainboard and chipset
Motherboard manufacturer
http://www.abit.com.tw/Motherboard model NF7-S/NF7 (nVidia-nForce2), 2.X
BIOS vendor Phoenix Technologies, LTD
BIOS revision 6.00 PG
BIOS release date 10/09/2003
Chipset nVidia nForce2 Ultra 400 rev. C1
Southbridge nVidia nForce2 MCP rev. A4
Sensor chip Winbond W83627HF
Graphic Interface AGP
AGP Status enabled, rev. 3.0
AGP Data Transfer Rate 8x
AGP Max Rate 8x
AGP Side Band Addressing supported, not enabled
AGP Aperture Size 64 MBytes
Memory
DRAM Type DDR-SDRAM
DRAM Size 512 MBytes
DRAM Frequency 199.5 MHz
FSB:DRAM 1:1
CAS# Latency 2.5 clocks
RAS# to CAS# 3 clocks
RAS# Precharge 3 clocks
Cycle Time (TRAS) 8 clocks
# of memory modules 1
Module 0 Corsair DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 512 MBytes
Software
Windows version Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
DirectX version 9.0c