Not all ram showing up...

Bakie · 30 Jun 2007 at 09:50

I previousely had 2 x 512mb PC2700 RAM and upgraded that to 2 x 1024mb PC3200 RAM but when I go to "My Computer" properties only 1GB is showing up. Also in 3DMark03 only 1GB of RAM is showing up it says the second slot is empty. But in CPUz it shows both of the sticks of ram.
Should I just ignore this or will my computer only use 1GB of the 2GB ram?

BTW my motherbord can handle 2GB ram.

Bakie · 30 Jun 2007 at 11:30

Im going on holiday now for the next week so wont be able to reply.
Wasnt the best time to start this thread was it

dUcKy · 1 Jul 2007 at 15:28

Make sure it is installed in the correct slots on your motherboard? What windows version are you running?
Is the RAM seated properly?

Bakie · 8 Jul 2007 at 11:56

Back from holiday so can now try to fix this problem.

Im running Windows XP Pro, my motherbord only has 2 slots for ram and both are now taken up and both are seated properly (well both "clips" are in place).

Rroff · 8 Jul 2007 at 14:25

It could be possible that while your motherboard supports 2gigs of RAM the burrent version of the BIOS you are running doesn't and that you will need to flash the latest version from the manufacturer to get that support... but I'd look to other avenues first.

Bakie · 8 Jul 2007 at 14:34

I was thinking that that was a possibility but Ive never liked flashing the bios so am hoping that there is another way.

My motherboard is the Asrock P4VM890

plasmahal · 8 Jul 2007 at 16:13

Start by going back to basics.......

You said you checked in windows.....

What does your post screen tell you have.

You can also see what speed your running in the bios.

disable quick boot so that the post does a full check of your memory.

If you have 2Gb in the post phase then you can look at windows problems.

Bakie · 8 Jul 2007 at 18:32

Well it is now working. All I did was test 1 piece of RAM at a time and one didnt seem to work in either slot but the other one did. So I then was just about to return it but instead I decided to swap them around and see if that works and now its working, which I find quite strange. But who cares its working now

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I was sure that I put them in correctly but I guess that I didnt :rolleyes:

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IAmATeaf · 8 Jul 2007 at 19:39

Sounds like 1 stick may not have been seated correctly.

Yellowbeard · 9 Jul 2007 at 15:08

It could have been a density or latency issue also. If you are curious, take a look at the DIMMs or list the model numbers. My guess is that you have 2 different speeds of memory and/or you may be mixing single sided and double sided memory.