I am sorry for leaving out this important information.  I am running XP
professional, SP-2.

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Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] How to get new memory to work?

What version of Windows are you using?

Tom Mayer

Trey Holm wrote:
> Is there anyway someone could tell me how to determine why Windows is
> not picking up new RAM I just installed?  I have a Dell Dimension 4700
> that came with  2 dual 512 sticks.  Later I put 2 1G sticks that
Windows
> picked up.  I have now replaced the old 512's with 2 1G sticks.  The
> BIOS setup picks the new sticks up, but when in the properties menu
> under My Computer, it shows the total from the old configuration.  How
> do I determine whether the sticks or bad or Windows is the problem?
>
>  
>
> Thanks,
>
> Trey Holm
>
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