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CrazySka

ive got a couple of questions maybe you guys can help.
1. i recently had to format the drive on my presario notebook, and since reinstalling ive noticed that some keys have switched on me for instance the @ is now the " key and i cant get a euro symbol any ideas?
2. i just upgraded ram up to 1024MB but my windows system says ive got 960MB whats the deal with that?

any help would be great cheers folks

dalk

Hi,

1. Keyboard is probably now set to US style keyboard. You need to set it to Ireland/UK keyboard. This is done in Regional Options/Settings in Control Panel. Input locales i think its referred to.

2. Maybe your memory is shared with the graphics card in the laptop (not unusual). You can specify how much memory the gfx card uses.

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dalk

galwaydude18

Well the first one is easy. Go into the control panel, keyboard, input locals tab, and if you see it click english Ireland and make it your default setting. That will sort out that problem.

How did you add the memory to your system? Two 512mb sticks or what? more info needed here....

PowerHouseDan

The keys are prob just the Language your settings are go into control panel and change to English-Irish

as for the memory your gfx card on your notebook is prob shared memory so its using that portion of ram

Kintarō Hattori

Hey John,

You need to change the language options. It's probably set to american english. If you change that to Irish you should be all good!!! Just go to Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options.

Spocker

john_dub wrote:

ive got a couple of questions maybe you guys can help.
1. i recently had to format the drive on my presario notebook, and since reinstalling ive noticed that some keys have switched on me for instance the @ is now the " key and i cant get a euro symbol any ideas?
2. i just upgraded ram up to 1024MB but my windows system says ive got 960MB whats the deal with that?

any help would be great cheers folks

1. Your keyboard has defaulted back to English (US). Go to Control Panel -> Regional Options and switch the keyboard to either English (British) or English (Ireland). This will put the @ and the " back on the right keys. To get the Euro symbol use Alt Gr. and 4

2. What are you using to get the 960 number. Right click on My Computer -> Properties and you should see the right amount in the "Computer:" section

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CrazySka

cheers for the quick responses guys i have the regional opptions set to ireland though and its the same.
the RAM was two 512s and i am using my computer=>properties to check the memory how would i check how much RAM the card is using?

Khannie

You lot and your fast advice.....

what you're looking for is under start->settings->control panel->keyboard

Edit: Card info should be in the bios.