Memory detection

[JChamp]

Hi folks,

I just installed some memory in a friend's laptop but Windows XP doesn't seem to be picking up on the new amount.

Funny thing is, this problem was there before -- I'll explain.

He has a compaq laptop with a celeron processor (not sure of the speed, but I can find out). He purchased it about 3 months ago and it included 256 MB Ram, but Windows only detected 196 under its "properties" listing.

I added a stick of 512 last week and now Windows says its running on 444 MB of Ram.

So, what gives? I tried running an Everest diagnostics program and it also showed 444, but listed each separate stick as 256 and 512 respectively.

Any answers to this mystery/quandry would be most appreciated!

John

 

[OatesyX]

, some of the ram is being used for the onboard graphics,im assuming hes using onboard graphics

 

[turtile]

, some of the ram is being used for the onboard graphics,im assuming hes using onboard graphics

Yup, 64MB allocated for onboard graphics.

 

[JChamp]

If 64mb is being utilized, shouldn't it read that it has about 700mb (i.e. 512 + 256 - 64)?

Just curious.

 

[COD2_fanatic]

it should read about 704MB of RAM if its using onboard graphics with allocated memory, only thing i can think of is that one of the sticks isn't the full amount as it should be

 

[turtile]

If your running it in dual channel, the big stick can only utilize the space of the smaller stick in order to work. It has to run single channel.