2Gb RAM showing as 256 MB Ram in system properties

[Guest]

I recently purchased a DV9088EA which came with Media Center.

Needing XP Pro for work use to be able to connect to a domain I uninstalled
media center and eventually managed to get XP Pro on and re-installed all
given drivers and all drivers from the HP drivers site for this laptop model.

Noticed that it seems to be running quite slow then realised that in the my
computer properties i have:

Computer:
Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 CPU
T5600 @ 1.83 GHz
987 MHz, 256MB of RAM
Physical Address Extension

Obviously, firstly it should have 2GB of RAM and should it not recognise
that this is the Intel Core 2 Duo?

I have checked this in many programs such as BeLarc Advisor and 2GB is
definately installed. I have gone into MSCONFIG to try and check the maxmem
option but I do not have a boot.ini apparently!

Any ideas? I am sure I have installed all drivers I need etc.

Thanks in advance

Regards
Dave.

 

[Shaun]

What does your bios show.
How much memory does it show on boot up.

 

[Guest]

It says 2GB RAM.

Any ideas?

What does your bios show.
How much memory does it show on boot up.

 

[Rock]

I recently purchased a DV9088EA which came with Media Center.

Needing XP Pro for work use to be able to connect to a domain I
uninstalled
media center and eventually managed to get XP Pro on and re-installed all
given drivers and all drivers from the HP drivers site for this laptop
model.

Noticed that it seems to be running quite slow then realised that in the
my
computer properties i have:

Computer:
Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 CPU
T5600 @ 1.83 GHz
987 MHz, 256MB of RAM
Physical Address Extension

Obviously, firstly it should have 2GB of RAM and should it not recognise
that this is the Intel Core 2 Duo?

I have checked this in many programs such as BeLarc Advisor and 2GB is
definately installed. I have gone into MSCONFIG to try and check the
maxmem
option but I do not have a boot.ini apparently!

You posted this yesterday and there were extensive replies. Why are you
reposting this again?