It may be that you have a stick that only passes POST to a certain capacity,
and the BIOS blocks access higher on the stick as a safety measure. Replace
with a known good to see if the original stick is faulty, or if the slot is
to blame. A little compressed air to blow dust and hair out of the slot may
help as well. Even one hair on a contact can be enough to make a healthy
stick fail to POST properly.
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From: Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Ron Harris
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 8:17 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [PCBUILD] Strange RAM Upgrade
First off this PC is completely and entirely custom built. The Original RAM
used was DDR2 5400 1Gb (1stick). When I upgraded I bought the same kind
going from 1gb to 4gb. 4gb happens to also be the maximum my motherboard can
hold. Now when I go to control panel -> system -> It reports 3.25gb? Why? Is
there something wrong? I pulled out the original 1gb stick and checked to
see what it did and on reboot it said 3gb. Keeping in mind this is the 1gb
stick I used all along before the upgrade I put it back in and on reboot
once again it said 3.25gb!
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