Ashamed for being such a n00b but...

RK-Mara

I have a memory problem.

I just bought two sticks of Kingston 1Gb DDR2 80Mhz PC6400 CL5 ram to go with my previous Buffalo sticks of the same type. Installation went well, PC booted up, but 64-bit Vista seems to have some problems recognizing all the ram. Task Manager and DxDiag say that I have only 3G, whereas System tells the correct 4Gb amount. Should I simply try reinstalling the sticks again?

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Atomiktoaster · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:45 pm Post subject:

Try booting with each stick individually. That's usually the recommended technique for isolating RAM issues.

RK-Mara · Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 2:20 am Post subject:

All of the individual sticks boot up fine.
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Stealth · Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 3:58 pm Post subject:

You have 4GB. My system says the same thing. Task Manager and Dxdiag do not recognize my 4GB either. But when I take one GB out, I do notice a slight difference in speed. I'm on an XP though.

I, personally, think it's just a display error. Kinda like when everything would only go up to 1999. Well they didn't predict things would get up to 4GB and beyond.
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Wang Chung · Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 5:10 pm Post subject:

Stealth wrote:

You have 4GB. My system says the same thing. Task Manager and Dxdiag do not recognize my 4GB either. But when I take one GB out, I do notice a slight difference in speed. I'm on an XP though.

Did you benchmark the speed? Are you on a 32bit OS?

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I, personally, think it's just a display error. Kinda like when everything would only go up to 1999. Well they didn't predict things would get up to 4GB and beyond.

Not quite - I don't think they predicted the world would end at year 2000 either Wink

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Stealth · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 6:50 pm Post subject:

I would assume they figured something else would outdate the technology or something by then. But something compelled them to make it up to '99.

Everything else recognizes that I have 4 GB. Just the Task Manager and Dxdiag does not.

Don't know which version I have. None of my programs I have tell me so if you know of a way, I'll relay that to you.
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RK-Mara · Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:02 am Post subject:

I wonder what Task Manager will say if my memory usage goes over three gigs.
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Stealth · Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 5:07 pm Post subject:

I tried doing that one time. I may even have the picture for it in photoshack. Lemme check.

Edit: Yep.... I ran out of programs at the time.

Edit x2: If it's too small due to resize

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/Ctstealth/zomg2.jpg
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Hirmuinen · Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 6:01 pm Post subject:

Stealth wrote:

You have 4GB. My system says the same thing. Task Manager and Dxdiag do not recognize my 4GB either. But when I take one GB out, I do notice a slight difference in speed. I'm on an XP though.

But XP doesn't support 4gbs of RAM, only 3.
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Stealth · Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 6:44 pm Post subject:

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Physical Memory Limits: Windows XP

The following table specifies the limits on physical memory for Windows XP.

Windows XP (reg)
32-bit OS = 4 GB
64-bit OS = 128 GB

Windows XP Starter Edition
32-bit OS = 512 MB
64-bit OS = N/A

Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778.aspx#physical_memory_limits_windows_xp

There's a whole discussion there if you wanna take a look at it. I know that 4GB is the true max, although it's misleading. They had a deal at the store I got it from (Microcenter), Buy one GB, get one free.
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