Re: RAM size

Please let me know if I got this right . :-)

You have three sticks of RAM (I'm not counting the stick you identified
as dead). One (the original, presumably) is 256 MB. The other two, which
you recently purchased from an Ebay seller whose reputation is less than
stellar, are each 512 MB.

If the above is right and assuming your BIOS is configured correctly
(that might be a big if!), then you need to test each stick of RAM using
both programs I mentioned earlier. And I mean test! You need to
determine if any or both of the new ones is defective. For example,
place one of the new 512MB sticks in the first slot (nothing else in the
other!). Test it. Use both programs. Repeat the procedure in the other
slot. Then do the same thing with the other stick.

Or perhaps you've done this already. In another post, did you pretty
much say one of the new sticks isn't working right? If that's the case,
can you run with 768MB (using the two sticks that are known to work)? If
so, the mystery is solved!

What kind of graphics card do you have? Is it a discrete card? Or is it
onboard?

Whether or not you need to access the BIOS for this particular issue,
you really should resolve that issue. You should post to the appropriate
HP forum.



"Bob" <Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:6C666DB1-1DB3-466F-97E7-AABAD891543E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Daave,

The nanay 512 is dead, I kept getting blu screen errors, windows
rebooting,
and lost or missing pci.sys, ntfs.sys errors, and pinpointed it to
this chip
I only had the 256 so decided to buy two 512, max per slot per
crucial,
kingston websites.
When i had that confi, it said 768 showing two slots filled.

"Daave" wrote:


"Bob" <Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2DA378BE-9394-4A8B-95DF-DC9770A09941@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks Dave,

I tried Memtest and it said total RAM was 1024
Cashe 1 8K ?
Cashe 2 512m ?

Anyway, Crucial.com says 1 512 stick, and at startup and windows
system
properties shows 1 gig.
But windows system info shows total physcial memory 512.00MB
using start-run-(msinfo32)

I am confused....

Are you able to go back to the congifuration you had prior to
purchasing
the two most recent RAM sticks (the 256MB Infinity and the 512MB
Nanya)?
Run all the scans and report back. As Ken stated, that may be all you
need.





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