Board Bad?

this is my first 64 bit system and im not sure if the board is bad or im a stupid and cant figure it out.
heres my trouble...
MSI K8T NEO2-FIR Via K8T800 Pro Athlon 64(FX) Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Processor
Kingston KVR400X72C3A/512 512MB DDR400 PC3200 Memory
i installed xp pro then went under my computer and it only recognized 256 of ram. so i changed the ram out with a Kingston DDR333 512 chip and it said the same thing. i cant get it to recognize the full amount. is there something i need to change in the bios or is my new board bad? thanks in advance.

here what it told me
L1 CACHE : 128K
L2 CACHE : 521K
MEMORY : 256
SETTINGS: RAM: 200MHZ/ CAS: 3-3-3-8 SINGLE CHANNEL 64 BIT
then the errors where
0 0 00000020000 FFFFFFFF 00000000
0 0 00000020000 0000000 FFFFFFFFF
something to that affect. when you said relaxing timings what are you meaning? ive never had this kind of problem before and not sure how to do that. i read through the post about timings but im still not for sure. i really appreciate the help.

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