DDR ram

[Mmmmick]

This is a simple question and demonstrates my ignorance of new hardware types. I just bought my system and on initial power on cycle it says I have 128 meg ram installed. The system was supposed to be supplied with 256 meg ddr which I plan on upgrading to at least 512 in the near future. Is my system telling me I have only 128 meg because it is not set up properly or did I only receive 128 meg ram in theis pc?
Will the ram be properly detected after I have loaded all the drivers and mb software that came with the machine. The vendor is closed today and I would like to know where I stand before I speak to them about this. All responses will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Mmmmick

[YODA74]

Have you looked in side to see?? on the stick of ram there should be a sticker telling you what it is..if it doesn't say 256 then they took you for a ride...or if you don't have two sticks of 128..

[no-mbr]

M,

If you can read the name and number on the mem-stick chips, you can go to various manufacture's websites and do an ID-lookup of what the chip really "IS"....

Double check Motherboard BIOS manual to check for mem-bank configurations......

[Mmmmick]

Thanks for your replies guys. The ram stick is tagged as 256 ddr pc266. MB asus A7v333, ram was supposed to be 256m ddr pc2100. The initial boot screen show it as 128 meg but the bios says 256 onboard. I'm wondering why the initial screen sees it 128 on mem test and what effect the bus speed will have. It sounds to me that the ram is not up to the mb's capabilities.

[Budfred]

Actually it sounds like it may be a bad stick of RAM. I would test it with DocMem:

http://www.simmtester.com

or another RAM tester to see what is going on.

Budfred

[saphalline]

That happened to my original stick of Crucial RAM. You don't have Crucial RAM in there by any chance? Must have been a bad batch if you do. Get it replaced.