SMBIOS Info wrong, only shows 1 stick of RAM

As always I would be grateful for any help at all, thanks...
 The pcpitstop.com -  benchmark/system evaluation website just informed me that my SMBIOS info is incorrect in that it shows only one of my 2 512MB sticks of Corsair RAM. Now I know that incorrect SMBIOS info is common, and not always dangerous. However, the pcpitstop results mentioned the possibility that my BIOS may be corrupt. Together with the recent death of my Promise RAID Array, and the fact that the Intel App Acc RAID edition cannot read the "RAID Option ROM Chip" once again, I am now officially worried. I am afraid that in a couple of days, or weeks I am going to be rebuilding my whole system from scratch, because the MB died and took my other components with it! Is it time to hit the big red panic button, remove this board, and exchange it for a ASUS or ABIT at Fry's?(thank God I got the  "full performance 3-year no questions asked exchange warranty" on all my components!) If I can fix my problem, and/or test to see if the end is nigh, I will be eternally grateful for an explanation how. I have some troubleshooting experience w/ this stuff, but the 875 chipset is so much less forgiving than any I have worked with in the past, that I am becoming positively gunshy!  
      Thanks again,
      John

Thanks Sean, I normally would be less inclined to get worried over such things. However the crashes etc. I have had with this MB have made me kinda nervous. Especially with all of the negative talk there has been about our board. Personally, I find it  satisfying as hell to work through the various issues, and get a good OC despite the challenges. If it were easy , or worked all the time, it would bore the hell out of me! Speaking of which, I have had some very positive results lately in the OC department. I must admit that I have not had it as bad as some others in terms of wierd AGP/PCI unlocking and such. The latest boost came as a silver lining to that dark assed cloud which fragged my Promise Array. Things are more stable, a couple of Applications are running error free for the first time and my IRQ situation is very clean.
   I would like to ask you about the situation with the Intel RAID Application Accelerator however. Then I promise I'll leave you alone to enjoy your Holidays My question is: Am I doing something to cause the RAID Option ROM Version to become unreadable by the Intel software? Up until just recently, the application would give the message about not all functions being available, because I needed a BIOS upgrade. I know this was not true, but until I moved my RAM to DIMMs 2&4, pulled & moved my Santa Cruz Soundcard a couple of slots, cleared the CMOS and reinstalled th IAA RAID Edition, I would periodically get the ROM not recognized message and lose some functionality. I also noticed that Sandra and aida32 would both show my DIMM 1 as a PCI slot (which demonstrates what you said about such utilities) however both problems went away at the same time, Is there some other big no-no that I don't know about like the Striped Disks thing? My Rig  is flying right now, I just want to keep it that way... Thanks!
         Merry Christmas!
         John

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