I'm not having problems with boot-up. My bios reports 2GB, my system
supports 2GB. Vista is not recognizing the upgrade.


"LaRoux" <hlx@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
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>I wonder what the "official" max ram is for your motherboard. I had a
>Compaq box that "officially" only supported 3x128mb (384mb). At one point I
>pulled a 128 and added a 256 to take it to 512mb and it worked like a
>charm. Buoyed by my success, I tried to add two more 256 to go to 768 and
>although all of it was recognized in the bios, when the system booted (XP),
>it crawled so slow that it was unusable. It easily took over 30 minutes to
>start-up and then probably 20 more to choose shutdown. I suspected a bad
>memory module but further experimenting revealed that all combinations >
>512mb displayed this behavior while any combination of 512 or less was
>fine.
>
> "Squibbly" <notreal@tostopspam.com> wrote in message
> news:uP4L1pPYHHA.3656@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>>i upgraded and vista recognised, but it started booting up very slowly
>>
>> "Grandecom News" <gargoyle@grandecom.net> wrote in message
>> news:060B4BB6-E850-4DBE-9354-884E695335C5@microsoft.com...[color=darkred]
>>> have Windows Vista Premium on a Dell 1501 Inspiron.
>>>
>>> I replaced X2 512 Ram with X2 1024 Ram.
>>>
>>> The system Bios reports:
>>>
>>> 633 System
>>> 1964032 Extended
>>>
>>> Bios Version 2.1.0
>>>
>>> Windows Vista still reports memory as being 895. (ATI Radon Xpress Video
>>> Hyper memory takes up 319).
>>>
>>> How do I fix this?[/color]
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