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Hi I am trying to upgrade to 2gb of ram. I now have 3 sticks of 512 and
everything is fine. When I put in the 2 1gb sticks the bios shows 2gb, but
windows is only showing 256mb??? My rig is this: Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro
Nforce3 150 chipset, Athlon 64 3400+, 3 sticks OCZ performance pc3200 512mb
per stick, ATI x-850 video 256mb on board, two spinpoint sata drives. MBO
states will support up to 3GB memory of this type, but when I take the 3 512
chips out and install the two 1GB chips bios shows 2 GB, but windows only
shows 256 and the slowdown shows that windows really only thinks there is 256
in the machine. (extrememly slow to boot etc)
The new ram is the same type as is in the machine now, just larger chip.
I am open to any and all suggestions.
everything is fine. When I put in the 2 1gb sticks the bios shows 2gb, but
windows is only showing 256mb??? My rig is this: Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro
Nforce3 150 chipset, Athlon 64 3400+, 3 sticks OCZ performance pc3200 512mb
per stick, ATI x-850 video 256mb on board, two spinpoint sata drives. MBO
states will support up to 3GB memory of this type, but when I take the 3 512
chips out and install the two 1GB chips bios shows 2 GB, but windows only
shows 256 and the slowdown shows that windows really only thinks there is 256
in the machine. (extrememly slow to boot etc)
The new ram is the same type as is in the machine now, just larger chip.
I am open to any and all suggestions.