i recently bought 2x1gb ddr2800 ram and am running vista home premium... its
only giving me 896mb physical memory. i take a stick out and still runs at
896mb... my bios says it has 2048mb total.. is there an explanation for why i
can only get 896mb physical..

You should run an utility like CPU-Z. It is free and you can find it by
doing a search on the internet.
It will give information about each stick of memory in your system.


"lames4113" <lames4113@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6FEDE9D3-4E4F-4848-8566-8BB3F3F297CB@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> i recently bought 2x1gb ddr2800 ram and am running vista home premium...
> its
> only giving me 896mb physical memory. i take a stick out and still runs at
> 896mb... my bios says it has 2048mb total.. is there an explanation for
> why i
> can only get 896mb physical..[/color]

Something you might try is going to Start > type MSCONFIG and press enter >
go to BOOT > Then Advanced Options > Make sure that Maximum Memory isn't
checked. If it is, uncheck it and reboot.



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Dustin Harper
[email]dharper@vistarip.com[/email]
[url]http://www.vistarip.com[/url]
"lames4113" <lames4113@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6FEDE9D3-4E4F-4848-8566-8BB3F3F297CB@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>i recently bought 2x1gb ddr2800 ram and am running vista home premium...
>its
> only giving me 896mb physical memory. i take a stick out and still runs at
> 896mb... my bios says it has 2048mb total.. is there an explanation for
> why i
> can only get 896mb physical..[/color]

thank you so much.. that was it! I knew it had to be something simple..
thanks again!

"Dustin Harper" wrote:
[color=blue]
> Something you might try is going to Start > type MSCONFIG and press enter >
> go to BOOT > Then Advanced Options > Make sure that Maximum Memory isn't
> checked. If it is, uncheck it and reboot.
>
>
>
> --
> Dustin Harper
> [email]dharper@vistarip.com[/email]
> [url]http://www.vistarip.com[/url]
> "lames4113" <lames4113@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6FEDE9D3-4E4F-4848-8566-8BB3F3F297CB@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> >i recently bought 2x1gb ddr2800 ram and am running vista home premium...
> >its
> > only giving me 896mb physical memory. i take a stick out and still runs at
> > 896mb... my bios says it has 2048mb total.. is there an explanation for
> > why i
> > can only get 896mb physical..[/color]
>[/color]