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480 MB of RAM???

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I have two 256 DIMM chips installed on a ASRock motherboard. However Windows is showing that I only have 480mb of RAM. Is this normal?

Name: taco
Date: December 29, 2003 at 18:58:52 Pacific

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yes :)

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Yes if you have the board with integrated graphics sharing your ram. If you have a seperate graphics card, disable the onboard graphics in bios.

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Name: J A Dean
Date: December 29, 2003 at 20:16:41 Pacific

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2 x 256 = 512mb you show 480mb diff = 32mb (strangely enough) your graphics card is the thief

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