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ryansoho
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_ 		16. August 2005 @ 07:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Ive got a question for all of my computer sauvy friends out there B)

I dont remember what kind of mother board i have on my computer, since i built it almost 3 years ago now,, but i can tell you that i have a 2.2ghz processor, so its not that old yet...

but my question is this.. is it possible that motherboards are limited to the amout or RAM they can read or hold.... reason being,, is that i used to have 1 512MB stick in my computer,, and it worked fine.. now i have 2 512 MB sticks,, and my computer system information says i only have 532MB ram,,, and my start up shows my computer reading from DIMM slot #2 only ???

whats up with that ???

ryan soHO :36_2_26:
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ddp
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_ 		16. August 2005 @ 07:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
take both sticks of ram out, use a pencil eraser on the gold contacts that fits into the ram slots on the motherboard. do you have onboard video & if do, how much ram assigned to it??
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ryansoho
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_ 		16. August 2005 @ 07:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
no on board video.

so you think my connections could be bad ????

???
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ddp
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_ 		16. August 2005 @ 07:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
did you try my suggestion with the eraser yet?? also try 1 stick of ram to test to see if bad ram or slot.
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Repoman89
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_ 		16. August 2005 @ 15:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Download a program called CPU-Z (google) to find out everything you need to know, tell us what it says about your motherboard/memory

Anyway, I doubt it's limited to 512mb because my 900Mhz 7 year old Athlon is limited to that.
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ryansoho
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_ 		17. August 2005 @ 03:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
alright thanks guys,, for helping...

but it turned out that i bought a "4400" ??? 512MB ddr stick,, when i needed a "2700" 512MB DDR stick...
who knew :S they look the same...

thanks again..

ryansoho
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Xian
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_ 		17. August 2005 @ 05:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Many motherboards only support a limited number of double sided RAM chips too. They are the ones with 8 chips on one side and 8 on another. Asus, Chaintech, and Gigabyte are ones that I know only support a single stick of double sided ram and only in the first slot on several models of their motherboards.
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