Hi,
        Check the second ram bank.  One of the contacts might be bent or dirty.
 It sounds like your memory is being detected, but is failing a memory
check.

HTH,
Donald Gaither

On Wednesday, March 17, 1999 7:05 PM, Robert Zeoli
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> Hi
>
> I have a 200meg pentium with 32 megs ram.  The mother board is a 8500TVG
Pentium VX System Board.  I don't know who the mother board manufactuer is,
the users manual is pretty generic.
>
> I just installed an additional 64 ( 2 - 32meg EDO pcs) megs of ram to a
system with 32 megs ( 2 16meg EDO pcs ).
> I did move the original 32 to the other 2 open rows (bank 1) per the
diagram on page 1-22 of the users manul for 96 megs of RAM. The new  RAM
went into bank 0.
>
> During boot the ram check goes okay till 70megs then the computer beeps
three times.
> It stops checking the ram  and continues the boot process.
> Under "My Computer" properties,  it comes up as 70 megs of ram.
> Funny thing though when I go into the Bios as the booting sequence is
checking the ram, it checks through to 96megs.  Then My Computer properties
shows 96 megs of ram.
> Is there somthing I need to change in the Bios to add RAM?
>
> I tried it with the RAM in the other slots 2-16's in bank 0 and the 2
32's in bank 1 but it then only shows 40megs.
>
> Thank you.
>

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