[Dr. Boogie]

Alright, I pulled out my motherboard manual to take a look, and found something surprising: Apparently, I've had my three sticks of ram in slots 2, 3, and 4 (as opposed to 1, 2, and 3) since I built the thing a couple years ago. It hasn't bothered me since then, so I guess that's ok. Anyway, here's what else I found:

When all the ram is out, the computer does beep. I tried putting each stick in, individually, in both the 1 slot and the slot it was originally in. With two of the sticks, the PC still beeped, but with one of them, it didn't beep no matter which slot it was in, but neither did it get past that blinking monitor self test. The CD drive lights blinked as they usually do during startup, but the power light and "thinking" light just below it stay on all the time.

So does this mean I have a bad mobo and two bad sticks of RAM, or is there something else afoot?