My Ram is Being Funny

[Lennyd33]

Running a Thunderbird 1 gig system
with windows 98se

I had 256 megs of Ram (pc133) and today bought another 256 (133) and had something funny happen.

When i boot up, the bios recognizes 512 megs installed. But in Windows , it only shows 511 megs!!!!!!
i even checked with Sysoft Sandra, and it gave me 511 megs as well.

Any ideas?? there are no shared memory shared components on my computer.

thanx

[justy]

Check in the bios settings for the 1meg slot between 15 and 16 meg enabled. This will report 1meg missiing in winders.

All the best, Justy.

[CMonster]

I believe this is a Windows 9x limitation. I have a similar system and I get 511MB in Win98 but it shows the correct amount in Linux. If this was caused by a BIOS setting I would think it should be the same amount of memory available to Linux as well as Windows.

[This message has been edited by CMonster (edited 02-10-2001).]

[Lennyd33]

Justy > thanx for the reply...i checked my bios, no luck

Cmonster > thanx for the reply...i think you are right becuase when testing my 2 sticks seperatly they both come up as 256.

[Roy]

I think I would tolerate a 0.1953% memory loss. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

BTW ~ There's "a rat" in "separate". http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[Lennyd33]

Roy...as would i , i just wanted to make sure that the ram wasn't messed up.
:-)