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Originally Posted by clickhappy
I have a computer that's 3 years old, and it says the max it can handle is 1 gig of memory.
I already had 512 Mbs of memory in it and bought a new memory stick for 1 GIG.
So now I have 1.5 gigs of memory in the computer, but I guess the mother board can only handle 1 gig.
So is there a setting I can change to get the most out of the additional 512 mbs? or am I only getting use out of the gig and the rest is wasted?
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Did you check the RAM was the same type (e.g. DDR 266/PC2100) as the existing 512 MB RAM stick? If you haven't got the manual for the motherboard, just download HWInfo (
http://www.hwinfo.com), run through a scan, and it will tell you the make and model of your motherboard. Then just smack those details into Google and look for a manual, and then sift through the manual to check for the maximum amount of RAM.