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not all my memory being recognised - doh!
Hi everybody!
After a hard disk crash, a reinstall of XP and late night (probably a bad idea) reset of the CMOS to it's defaults I'm slowly clawing my way back out of PC hell. Most things are working now but my P5VD2-MX motherboard is only recognising 1 Gig of the 2 Gig I've got. Each 1 Gig mem module works ok on it's own. But when I put them both in the system only reports 1 Gig in total. Any help deeply appreciated! thanks |
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simon humby wrote:
Hi everybody! After a hard disk crash, a reinstall of XP and late night (probably a bad idea) reset of the CMOS to it's defaults I'm slowly clawing my way back out of PC hell. Most things are working now but my P5VD2-MX motherboard is only recognising 1 Gig of the 2 Gig I've got. Each 1 Gig mem module works ok on it's own. But when I put them both in the system only reports 1 Gig in total. Any help deeply appreciated! thanks 1) Try stick #1 in slot 1 and slot 2. Does the machine report 1GB in each case ? This step is proving that both slots work. 2) Try stick #2 in one of the slots. Does the second stick report as 1GB ? (This is finishing the testing, by proving that both sticks work.) 3) Are the sticks identical brand/model, or a mixture of different products ? What happens if you install both sticks, but swap the sockets used for each ? Total: Five test cases. If I had to guess, I'd suspect a stick of RAM is not making good contact with a socket. I don't see a good reason for the BIOS to be disabling a stick of RAM, just out of spite. Perhaps the memory would be disabled, if it failed during the POST RAM test. But then, a bad stick of RAM, should also fail by itself, and lead to "bad RAM" beeping and no video on the screen, if it was installed by itself and it didn't work properly. Paul |
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all fixed now
thanks "simon humby" wrote in message ... Hi everybody! After a hard disk crash, a reinstall of XP and late night (probably a bad idea) reset of the CMOS to it's defaults I'm slowly clawing my way back out of PC hell. Most things are working now but my P5VD2-MX motherboard is only recognising 1 Gig of the 2 Gig I've got. Each 1 Gig mem module works ok on it's own. But when I put them both in the system only reports 1 Gig in total. Any help deeply appreciated! thanks |
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not all my memory being recognised - doh!
simon humby wrote:
"simon humby" wrote After a hard disk crash, a reinstall of XP and late night (probably a bad idea) reset of the CMOS to it's defaults I'm slowly clawing my way back out of PC hell. Most things are working now but my P5VD2-MX motherboard is only recognising 1 Gig of the 2 Gig I've got. Each 1 Gig mem module works ok on it's own. But when I put them both in the system only reports 1 Gig in total. all fixed now Completely pointless without including a description of the fix. -- Chuck F (cbfalconer at maineline dot net) http://cbfalconer.home.att.net Try the download section. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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not all my memory being recognised - doh!
"simon humby" wrote
After a hard disk crash, a reinstall of XP and late night (probably a bad idea) reset of the CMOS to it's defaults I'm slowly clawing my way back out of PC hell. Most things are working now but my P5VD2-MX motherboard is only recognising 1 Gig of the 2 Gig I've got. Each 1 Gig mem module works ok on it's own. But when I put them both in the system only reports 1 Gig in total. all fixed now Thanks for sharing the solution. |
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not all my memory being recognised - doh!
"CBFalconer" wrote in message
... simon humby wrote: "simon humby" wrote After a hard disk crash, a reinstall of XP and late night (probably a bad idea) reset of the CMOS to it's defaults I'm slowly clawing my way back out of PC hell. Most things are working now but my P5VD2-MX motherboard is only recognising 1 Gig of the 2 Gig I've got. Each 1 Gig mem module works ok on it's own. But when I put them both in the system only reports 1 Gig in total. all fixed now Completely pointless without including a description of the fix. Not pointless - he has told us that he no longer requires help and we don't need to spend any more time on the problem for him! |
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