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upgraded ram, but windows wont see half.

  • 29-12-2009 2:35pm
    #1
    RoyalMarine
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    small funny problem here, which is driving me nuts.

    i upgraded my ram on my m1710 xps to 4gb, and took the 2gb which it came with and gave it to my dad.

    he has a vostro 1500 with 1gb (2x512mb)
    so we decided to upgrade his laptop.

    removed the cover, and only found 1 ram slot. turns out dell put the other ram slot on the other side of the motherboard in a bastard to find place.

    so after a while of messing with it, we finally got it open, and put in the 2 x 1gb sticks i gave him.

    turned it on, and the bios is reading 2048mb installed.

    however, system information in windows only says .99gb installed.

    any idea's why windows wont tell me i hve 2gb installed?


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  • #2
    Alanstrainor
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    Download CPU-Z or similar and see if that picks up both sticks. It should give you info on both of them. It sounds odd alright, what OS is he running? XP? Vista?


  • #3
    RoyalMarine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭RoyalMarine


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    Download CPU-Z or similar and see if that picks up both sticks. It should give you info on both of them. It sounds odd alright, what OS is he running? XP? Vista?

    right, ive just ran cpu-z, and both sticks are detected and showing.

    he's running win xp pro sp3.

    i did a scan on crutial too.

    Your Dell Vostro 1500 Specifications
    Currently installed memory:



    1GB 1GB
    Each memory slot can hold DDR2 PC2-6400,DDR2 PC2-5300 with a maximum of 2GB per slot.*



    *Not to exceed manufacturer supported memory.
    Maximum Memory Capacity: 4096MB
    Currently Installed Memory: 2GB
    Available Memory Slots: 0
    Total Memory Slots: 2
    Dual Channel Support: Yes
    CPU Manufacturer: GenuineIntel
    CPU Family: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5270 @ 1.40GHz Model 15, Stepping 13
    CPU Speed: 1396 MHz


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