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tony286 · 10-16-2006, 02:34 PM

My friend has a power spec computer had 768 mb of ram. She wanted to boost it up , I got her two gig of ram installed it . It started up fine showed the 2 gig and then down loaded win xp updates for the computer. Reboot, it sticks so I power restart now it only show 512 of ram. Any ideas?

munki · 10-16-2006, 02:37 PM

can the bios handle 2 gb?

Are they paired sticks, and in correct slots?

HorseShit · 10-16-2006, 02:38 PM

may need to flash bios with newest

DutchTeenCash · 10-16-2006, 02:38 PM

- bios cant handle
- motherboards cant handle 2 different ones
- wrong slot or inserted wrong

id check that first

polle54 · 10-16-2006, 02:40 PM

take out the old, try again with only the new blocks

if not then try only with 1024

if it's one block you just wasted a few $$$

tony286 · 10-16-2006, 03:08 PM

something that i thought had nothing to do with the ram....i had also installed a firewire card at the same time. i have removed the firewire card now and it seems to work fine. could it be that it needs a bigger power supply?
thank you so much for all your replies.

munki · 10-16-2006, 03:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tony404

something that i thought had nothing to do with the ram....i had also installed a firewire card at the same time. i have removed the firewire card now and it seems to work fine. could it be that it needs a bigger power supply?
thank you so much for all your replies.

IF that's the case, could just be some shared IRQ problems or something similar.

notabook · 10-16-2006, 03:13 PM

Try switching around which pci slot the firewire card is plugged into, not a psu problem when ram won't show up (ram takes so little power that it really couldn't be that). Has to be a sharing violation of resources like munki suggested.

10-16-2006, 02:34 PM	#1
tony286 lurker Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: atlanta Posts: 57,021	computer tech question My friend has a power spec computer had 768 mb of ram. She wanted to boost it up , I got her two gig of ram installed it . It started up fine showed the 2 gig and then down loaded win xp updates for the computer. Reboot, it sticks so I power restart now it only show 512 of ram. Any ideas?

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10-16-2006, 03:13 PM	#8
notabook Confirmed User Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Not a Library! Posts: 9,748	Try switching around which pci slot the firewire card is plugged into, not a psu problem when ram won't show up (ram takes so little power that it really couldn't be that). Has to be a sharing violation of resources like munki suggested. __________________

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HorseShit Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 17,513	may need to flash bios with newest

10-16-2006, 03:08 PM	#6
tony286 lurker Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: atlanta Posts: 57,021	something that i thought had nothing to do with the ram....i had also installed a firewire card at the same time. i have removed the firewire card now and it seems to work fine. could it be that it needs a bigger power supply? thank you so much for all your replies.