windows memory

[Gary]

I have just installed an additional 1 gig. memory stick on my mother board
There is now a total of 1.5 gig. The bios says that it is there, but windows
will not recognize the new memory size. So I wonder why I bothered. Is there
a way to force Windows (XP) to recognize the new memory?
Thanks
Gary

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I have just installed an additional 1 gig. memory stick on my mother board
There is now a total of 1.5 gig. The bios says that it is there, but windows
will not recognize the new memory size.

How do you know that? What are you seeing and where?

So I wonder why I bothered. Is there
a way to force Windows (XP) to recognize the new memory?

Almost certainly, it does, and you are mistaken.

What applications are you running that make you think you need that
much memory in Windows XP? Unless you run particularly memory-hungry
applications, 1.5GB of RAM is overkill for almost everyone. Despite
the many people who continually repeat "the more memory the better,"
that's true only up to a point. For most people that point is
somewhere between 256-512MB, and except for those doing something like
editing videos or large photographic images, is almost always no
greater than 1GB.