Memory not recognized - revisited

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(I posted the same problem on another group several weeks ago but have
since wiped my drive and reinstalled XP to correct the Zip drive as C:
problem. I have a little more information now so I thought I'd give it
another shot.)

I have a 256 Meg PC133 ram chip in slot 0 and a 128 Meg PC 133 in slot
1. When booting up, 384 Megs is reported as it is in System Properties
(-32 Megs for video). However, when I run System Information, only 256
Megs is reported. If I swap chip locations, I get 128 Megs in System
Information. For some reason System Information is not seeing what is in
slot 1.
I am almost positive that Win98 reported 384 Megs when running System
Information. I would have noticed the discrepency.
It was suggested that I check the boot.ini ? file for a memory cap, but
that was not the problem.
Thanks in advance for any help and thanks to those who already tried.
 
NewUser said:
(I posted the same problem on another group several weeks ago but have
since wiped my drive and reinstalled XP to correct the Zip drive as C:
problem. I have a little more information now so I thought I'd give it
another shot.)

I have a 256 Meg PC133 ram chip in slot 0 and a 128 Meg PC 133 in slot
1. When booting up, 384 Megs is reported as it is in System Properties
(-32 Megs for video). However, when I run System Information, only 256
Megs is reported. If I swap chip locations, I get 128 Megs in System
Information. For some reason System Information is not seeing what is in
slot 1.
I am almost positive that Win98 reported 384 Megs when running System
Information. I would have noticed the discrepency.
It was suggested that I check the boot.ini ? file for a memory cap, but
that was not the problem.
Thanks in advance for any help and thanks to those who already tried.
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"System Information" sometimes misreports. Take a look at the total
physical memory reported in Task Manager -> Performance.

Maybe slot 1 is bad and the bios check doesn't detect that it's bad.

-- Bob Day
 
Bob said:
"System Information" sometimes misreports. Take a look at the total
physical memory reported in Task Manager -> Performance.

Maybe slot 1 is bad and the bios check doesn't detect that it's bad.

-- Bob Day
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Task manager reports the memory as I would expect. Thanks. Didn't think
to look there before. Still don't understand the discrepancy though. Why
would the bios see it and not XP? Win98 seemed to see it all as I
recall. Maybe I'll try and put one chip in slot 1 and see what happens.
I sent off a message to the MB manufacturer to see what they say. Thanks
again for your help.
 
As Bob has said, System Information sometimes misreports - as in a bug (well
known by the way). It is reported here frequently. You "must" have more
important things to worry about (-:

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
 
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