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ScottW wrote on 5/24/2007, 5:51 AM
Sounds like the RAM was installed incorrectly - easy to do, those sticks can be a real bear sometimes. I'd power down and reseat the stick; then boot into BIOS and verify that your BIOS sees the additional memory.

Also check how your original 512 was provided - many motherboards have restrictions on how you add - for example, if you've got slots for 4 sticks and your original 512 was done as 2 sticks of 256, the MB may require that additional memory be added as a pair of sticks.

--Scott
Former user wrote on 5/24/2007, 6:03 AM
If reseating doesn't work, exchange the slots too. I had some 256 sticks that would only work if they were in a particular order.

Dave T2
TheHappyFriar wrote on 5/24/2007, 9:37 AM
my previous MB's required sticks to be in slots 1, 1+3, 2+4 or 1+2+3+4. Can't do 1+2 or 3+4 only.

check the manual to see if it's something simple.
Jay Gladwell wrote on 5/24/2007, 10:48 AM

Well, aren't I the dope!? (Yeah, yeah, yeah.., so what else is new, right?)

I opened up the computer and there was only 512MB of RAM in there. I would have sworn that I had upgraded the RAM a year or so ago. Getting old is no fun.

Thanks for all your input!


TLF wrote on 5/24/2007, 11:13 PM
I know you've solved it, but to add to others' possibilities... some motherboards may need a BIOS update to correctly report the RAM (I came across a PC Chips/ECS board that needed an update).


Worley
NickHope wrote on 5/24/2007, 11:56 PM
Maybe you've got mice with a taste for silicon.
ScottW wrote on 5/25/2007, 4:44 AM
I could almost believe mice - I've had them nibble thru ethernet cable before
riredale wrote on 5/25/2007, 8:00 AM
On the subject of memory, I am in the process of upgrading from 1GB to 2GB. I have an Asus A8V m/b with an X2 processor, and when I built it last fall I threw in 2x512MB sticks. Well, 1GB is plenty for most tasks (I know, because I have the little RamPage free-memory monitor sitting in the System Tray), but I discovered over the past few weeks that each instance of DeShaker eats up 400MB during Pass 2! I was trying to run two instances of DeShaker at once and the system would slow to a crawl due to disk file swapping. So, I bought an extra 1GB from NewEgg.

Threw it in and everything worked great--for an hour. Turns out that the A8V is a great board, but with a few quirks. One of them is that it freaks when running 4 memory slots with particular processors, one of them being--you guessed it.

So I've ordered 2x1GB memory sticks to replace everything. The memory I had just bought is up for sale on eBay. Turns out that I had tossed the packaging once I saw it was initially working. Dumb.