Why ram only shows 256k? It's 512.

[sdlomi2]

Need some advice, pls. Just opened, new, sleeve of Kingston HyperX, 512
mg, PC3500. Installed in my Asus A7N8X "New version" from Newegg. Been
running 6 weeks +/- fine with 2/128, Crucial, pc2100 and 1/256, Corsair,
pc2400; cpu was a 2100+ at 11X190~ 2100.
Changed to Barton, 2500, week 3 of '04 (talk about new!) and changed ram
to the King. 512, 3500. Problem is system recognizes ram as 256, Sandra
sees 256. Am I missing something such as a setting somewhere? Cmos is set
to auto for cpu and ram----it sets 166 fsb & 11 for mult, and cpuid sees
1837--11X167.
Someone help? Thanks, s

 

[Philip Callan]

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sdlomi2 wrote:

| Changed to Barton, 2500, week 3 of '04 (talk about new!) and
changed ram
| to the King. 512, 3500. Problem is system recognizes ram as 256, Sandra
| sees 256. Am I missing something such as a setting somewhere?
| Someone help? Thanks, s
|
|

Sounds like what PC133 used to do, if your chipset didnt support that
style of memory density, how many 'chips' on each stick?

Philip
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[DaveW]

Try installing the new RAM one stick at a time and booting up. That'll tell
you if one of the sticks is defective.

 

[sdlomi2]

Try installing the new RAM one stick at a time and booting up. That'll tell
you if one of the sticks is defective.

There's just 1 stick. s

 

[sdlomi2]

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sdlomi2 wrote:

| Changed to Barton, 2500, week 3 of '04 (talk about new!) and
changed ram
| to the King. 512, 3500. Problem is system recognizes ram as 256, Sandra
| sees 256. Am I missing something such as a setting somewhere?
| Someone help? Thanks, s
|
|

Sounds like what PC133 used to do, if your chipset didnt support that
style of memory density, how many 'chips' on each stick?

Philip

It appears to have 8 chips on each side. Does that indicate the
problem? If so, what would be the solution, or can it be run as a lesser
ram? If so, what would it run as? Thx, sdlomi

 

[dave AKA vwdoc1]

Eight days ago I had bought a stick of Kingston 256mb 266mhz PC2100 and it
would allow my new computer to partially setup win xp and then errors would
appear.
I emailed Kingston and they told me to just exchange the ram at the store
where I purchased it from. I did today and the new one is running well.
In those 8 days I bought a different brand of ram to make sure that it was
defective ram and not something that I had done wrong. That was the week of
h#ll for me and that darn computer so I basically bought everything again so
I could find the problem.

Maybe you have defective ram so don't rule that out! Of course the store I
exchanged that stick of ram did not even check inside of it, so maybe
someone switched ram and you really have a 256mb stick!
AND NO, IT WASN'T ME!! lol
later,
dave