2gb ram displaying as 256mb ram

From: "daddywhite" <davidwhiteford@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 13 Jan 2007 08:56:25 -0800

I recently purchased a HP DV9088EA laptop which came with Media Center.

Needing XP Pro for work use to be able to connect to a domain I
uninstalled media center and eventually managed to get XP Pro on and
re-installed all given drivers and all drivers from the HP drivers site
for this laptop model.

Noticed that it seems to be running quite slow then realised that in
the my computer properties i have:

Computer:
Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 CPU
T5600 @ 1.83 GHz
987 MHz, 256MB of RAM
Physical Address Extension

Obviously, firstly it should have 2GB of RAM and should it not
recognise that this is the Intel Core 2 Duo?

Anyone got any suggestions on how to fix this?

Thanks in advance

Regards
Dave.

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