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Offline m1tanker

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« on: June 28, 2006, 08:46:06 PM »
i have two 512MB ram chips in my emachines pc...it only came with one. but its only showing that i have 760MB of ram, what is up with this?
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« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2006, 09:52:17 AM »
This happens to me a lot. It can either be your bios thats [censored] up a little, your computer is not detecting the other 256mb of ram or a program such as limewire is using up virtual and your actual memory. If you really wanna fix it just ghost the whole of your hardrive then format it and start all over. That includes installing your OS again etc.
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« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2006, 07:20:22 PM »
well i cant do that being as i have lost my windows disk, is there any other way to fix this?
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« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2006, 06:12:05 PM »
You should look around at some of the options in your BIOS setup. Somethings in there may be useful.

WARNING: If your a noob to your BIOS Setup, please consult your motherboard/PC manual. Changing options without proper understanding may result in system malfunctioning.
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« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2006, 06:09:22 AM »
Could be 2 reasons only....

1. You have an incompatabilty issue with your 2 ram sticks, one is running different hertz than other eg. PC266 or PC 400

2. One of the ram sticks are busted / most likely this reason its happend to me a few times. Very much doubt if its a bios thing...
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« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2006, 08:07:59 AM »
ur comp using some?
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« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2006, 04:46:44 PM »
Here's what sounds like is happening:

You put in some incompatible ram.  Maybe it's high-density, I dunno, but it's only seeing half of the chip, i.e. only 256MB of ram.  Now, 512MB plus 256MB is 768MB, so we still have another 8MB of ram missing.  Easy answer, that PC most likely has integrated graphics, and 8MB is a pretty standard amount of ram for integrated graphics to use.  So, that 8MB is used for graphics and is seen as graphics ram, not system ram.  So, the amount of ram that will show up will be lowered by 8MB.  So, if you put in a separate graphics card, you'd most likely see the "full" 768MB of ram.

If you want to troubleshoot this further, you could try swapping the sticks of ram, if that doesn't help then try taking one stick out completely?  Does it show 512MB of ram (or rather, 504MB due to the 8MB taken for graphics)?  If it does, try with the other stick of ram.  If you see over 500MB of ram available each time, then it must be a problem with having both sticks of ram present at the same time.  If you notice that with one stick it only shows 256MB (or 248MB), then that's definitely the problem ram.
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