Bad RAM

Hello Troops,

I have recently been having a ton of World of Warcraft crashes and the techs form there think it is RAM related as in a bad stick. About 2 months ago I upgraded form 2 sticks of 256ea to 4 sticks for a total of 1 Gig of RAM. Heres my problem.

Heres my problem, when I try to take a stick or two out and reboot the computer will not boot. I place the sticks back in and boot and I am immediately directed into the Setup utility with a warning that reads something like "The computer did not boot last time due to an improper CPU speed setting....."

I was always under the impression that I could pull RAM out and put it in as much as I wanted. I have PC-1066 RDRAM and my second question is this, do I have to run this RAM paired? or if I find one of the sticks to in fact be bad can I run with three vice 4 sticks?

Thanks Troops.

zkirby

My Specs:
Manufacture: Alienware
Model: Area-51
Mobo: ASUS P4T533-3
Processor: Intel P4 2.53 533 FSB
RAM 2x256mb sticks of Kingston PC-1066 RDRAM / 2x256mb sticks Samsung PC-1066 RDRAM
GFX Card: ATI RAEDON 9700 PRO 128 DDR
HD: Western Digital 80 GB (recently replaced because last one died)
Sound card: Sound Blaster Audigy w/1394
Network card: Intel PRO/1000 MT GIGABIT Desktop adapter
Plextor Plexwriter 40/12/40 CDR-W
KOOLMAX cooling system