maybe it doesnt recognise or support the new 3gb then

"Gargoyle" <gargoyle@grandecom.net> wrote in message
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> 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=darkred]
>>>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...
>>>> 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?
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