Adding Memory

[JamieShoes]

Hi,
I recently added a 128 mb mem card to my system which at the time was running on 64mb. When I intially installed the card, Windows happily recognised BOTH cards, and was running at 192mb. Lately, however, I've noticed that Windows is now only recognising the 128 mb card. I've looked inside the tower to check that it's not a physical problem, and everything seems fine, I've checked using the other available slots, but with the same results....only one card recognised. Is there some way I can command windows to recognise both again??? Perhaps a change in the settings somewhere or even the BioS menu ???

Any help would very gratefully recieved ....
Thanks and all the best
Jamie

 

[DeanSpencer]

When first turning on the system does it count the correct amount of RAM? You should not have to do anything to Windows to get it to reconize how much ram you have.

 

[JamieShoes]

HHmmmmm...unfortunately, I cannot see...the page dissapears too quickly, I can stop it at soft cpu menu, but can't hang on to the page with the system resources on it. Is there a way to do this??? Or better still, do u know where in the BioS I can find a setting to allow different memory configurations???

 

[Shad007]

take out the 128mb..does it boot to 64? ..swap the 64mb with the 128mb and try again...are the ram sticks both the same speed? ie 100mhz sdram? 133mhz? try them in a diff pc if possible...also try and reset your bios settings to factory level or setup level...

 

[nlm9802]

go to your setup menu when you reboot (either hit delete of f-1 or whatever the keys are to get to it) and find fast boot or quick boot, set that to now and reboot, you should be able to watch your computer count the memory (ooOOoo aaAAaa)

If it doesnt count 192 there, the 64 might have burnt out.