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post #1 of 7
8/28/06 at 7:44am
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Ok, i purchased a 1 gig ram update for my laptop, checked if it was right. I had an original ram of 2x256mb cards. I removed the 1 and replaced it with my 1 gig. Now it says i have 768... 1 gig + 256mb DOES NOT EQUAL 768...Help plz...
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post #2 of 7
8/28/06 at 8:20am
You could be facing incompatibility issues: new ram not compatible with the mainboard or with one of the old ram modules. Play around, putting the modules in different slots and see if this solves the issue.
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post #3 of 7
8/28/06 at 9:20am
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Originally Posted by SniperSA
Ok, i purchased a 1 gig ram update for my laptop, checked if it was right. I had an original ram of 2x256mb cards. I removed the 1 and replaced it with my 1 gig. Now it says i have 768... 1 gig + 256mb DOES NOT EQUAL 768...Help plz...
what is ur laptop's model? using Integrated GPU? tool used to check ram?

cheers ...
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post #4 of 7
8/28/06 at 2:39pm
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ok well i used a scanner called Crucial scanner thanks to crucial.com
it said my PC had an AGP port...FALSE. WinXP says 768MB Crucial says 768MB and WinVista says 1.18GB. Wats up with it???
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post #5 of 7
8/28/06 at 4:52pm
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Originally Posted by SniperSA
ok well i used a scanner called Crucial scanner thanks to crucial.com it said my PC had an AGP port...FALSE. WinXP says 768MB Crucial says 768MB and WinVista says 1.18GB. Wats up with it???
laptop's model? display adapter name/model in device/harware manager? cheers ...
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post #6 of 7
8/28/06 at 8:18pm
have you tried sisoft sandra? the lite edition should be able to give you all the hardware specs for the laptop your using, i know it did for mine, you can download it here : http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/ :

ike,
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post #7 of 7
8/28/06 at 8:48pm
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ok i fixed the problem here's wat i did. Since i saw in Vista it said 1.18GB i figured if i update the BIOS on WinXP it would fix it. After i installed the new BIOS WinXP System Info States Physical Memory: 1,280MB
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