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jimshasteen
09-06-2001, 09:14 PM
System is Athlon 700 on MSI ms6195 motherboard with 128mg ram. I added two 128mg sticks and Windows only recognizes 256mg total. The CMOS reports 384. What could I have done wrong?

mjc
09-06-2001, 09:53 PM
What version of Windows are you running?

You can run through the memory troubleshooter (either through the Helpfile or here (http://support.microsoft.com/support/tshoot/w98memory.asp).

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classicsoftware
09-06-2001, 11:52 PM
Try putting in 128 MB at a time and see if there is a problem with an individual DIMM.

Also, is there a local shop with a RAM testing machine that will test the RAM for you? If there is, take the chips out and have them tested.

jimshasteen
09-07-2001, 07:19 AM
Running Windows 98se

jimshasteen
09-10-2001, 08:02 PM
Your suggestion worked. Thank you.