RAM in Windows 2000 Proffessional

[Parijat Deb]

Hi ALL!
I have a desktop system with 128 MB of memory
(64+64 MB).I have installed windows 2000 pro in the system
and now its showing only 92MB of RAM in the System
Properties.I have an integrated graphics card and no
ehternet card on the system.Pls tell what could be the
reason.Does Windows 2000 pro share a lot of memory for
building up the different network settings.Also the system
is a stand-alone machine and not connected to a network.

 

[Dan Seur]

Parijat - RAM cards/chips can fail or partially fail.

Check BIOS. Does it report 128MB? If not, make absolutely sure both 64MB
cards are well seated in their motherboard slots. If BIOS still does not
report 128MB, remove one card, then the other if necessary, to see which
card is bad. Make sure when you have one card in the machine it is in
the correct slot. Also try swapping the 2 cards in their slots to make
sure it isn't a slot or other failure.

If BIOS reports 128MB, keep in mind that W2k and other NT-class OS's are
more demanding of RAM than BIOS is; a RAM card that passes BIOS selftest
may have subtle timing or other problems that cause W2k to reject all or
part of it. If this is the case, try some of the suggestions above to
isolate the problem. It's unlikely, but conceivably swapping slots might
help (different wire lengths and so on). But if a card has partially
failed, best to replace it before it starts corrupting your bitstrings
flowing across it.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

How much of the system RAM is the integrated video card configured
to use? This will affect the amount of RAM available to Win2K.

Bruce Chambers

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[lbj12x]

it seems one bank of your memory doesn't detected by win2000,since 92mb
seems like "64+32-videomemory".
so you'd better check your ram with "goldmemory" or some software like it.