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boysetsfire

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Posted: Thu, 7th Feb 2008 21:43 Post subject: ram related issue	Quick Quote Quote

Can't really find anything on the via-arena forum, so i thought i'd ask here Few months ago i upgraded the comp at my dads house with 1gig (256 before) and worked fine. and now i come back and notice its back using only 256 Now the weird part is that if i leave only the 1gig piece in, it still shows only 256. Took the ram home for testing and both are working ok. now i came back with 5 diffrent pieces (all working) tried al sorts of combinations and it never will go any higher than 256. So it must be the motherboard right? tried updating drivers and putting BIOS settings to default. Is there anything left i can try? Would a format do any good? Or should i just tell him to buy a new motherboard cus running xp on 256mb is really annoying specs: Athlon XP 2200+ Radeon 8500 (yeah its not really ment for gaming ) motherboard: VIA KM266-8235 anyway thanks for reading

chaingang23

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Posted: Fri, 8th Feb 2008 00:33 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

My guess is its probably the motherboard forsure,You could try to format it and see if it still apears 256MB only.

dingo_d
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Posted: Fri, 8th Feb 2008 00:44 Post subject:

have you tried updating bios?

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kosmiq

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Posted: Fri, 8th Feb 2008 00:53 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Try updating bios as dingo_d said. Also check the BIOS for any RAM-related settings like how much should be set for any existing built-in graphics and so on. Behold his GLORY! Bow for the technical master!

Veki

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Posted: Fri, 8th Feb 2008 09:18 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

See if you have RAM limit set in Win XP. To see it try this : Start-> Run -> type "msconfig" without the quotes go to BOOT.INI tab and see if you have something like this : multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /maxmem=256 If you have, click on the "Advanced Options..." and uncheck /MAXMEM box. OR Edit "Boot.ini" on system drive root and delete the red part. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. Commisssioner Pravin Lal "U.N. Declaration of Rights"

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