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Ram is showing up wrong amount
Name: appleinvader Date: July 29, 2005 at 16:42:16 Pacific OS: win xp CPU/Ram: celeron 1.0/
Comment:
I bought a new stick of ram for my computer and it only shows up at 128 and it is a 256 stick can someone please help me. thanks in advance Juan
Name: Richard59 Date: July 29, 2005 at 16:49:04 Pacific
Reply:
Most likely explanation is you have purchased a high density stick of ram. it probably has chips on only one side of the stick. Your motherboard however can only recognize low density double-sided ram. It is more expensive and harder to get and there is no workaround.
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