I have been racking my brain tryin so many tips to get my motherboard/xp to register the right amount of memory installed on my system. I have had had this system running this same memory for a while and never had a issue until i took out the sticks and used it on another system which also ran the ram fine. both systems are the same and campat with the orginal ram. The other day after having the system unpulgged for a few months i notice that the system was only showing 16mb of ram and once i put in the another stick it the bois still said 16mb shared memory. After reading pots and changing things in the bois and resetting the cmos i was finally able to install windows xp. This was only after i changed the bois setting for shared memory to 8mg not 16mb. Oh yea forgot i also had to set the set the bois to onboard video even though i dont use any other video card. As you would think the xp install took forever and also for the first load of xp. When i go to my computer specs it says im running 56mb of ram. I thought that one if the sticks was bad but i can only get the system to work with both sticks and again in the im clearly getting ram from both sticks. I have also changed the slots they were in no luck. Here are my specs from belarc advisor and it always shows my motherboard # but now it wont. Please help me if you have any advice please let me know =)
Operating System System Model
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (build 2600)
Install Language: English (United States)
System Locale: English (United States) No details available
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
1.80 gigahertz AMD Duron
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
64 kilobyte secondary memory cache
Not hyper-threaded Bus Clock: 66 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 062710 07/15/97
Drives Memory Modules c,d
70.75 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
52.18 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
LG CD-RW CED-8120B [CD-ROM drive]
3.5″ format removeable media [Floppy drive]
Maxtor 2F030J0 [Hard drive] (30.75 GB) — drive 0, s/n F13VFNEE, rev VAM51JJ0, SMART Status: Healthy
ST340014A [Hard drive] (40.02 GB) — drive 1, s/n 5JXA8SF3, rev 3.06, SMART Status: Healthy 56 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot ‘0’ has 32 MB
Slot ‘1’ has 32 MB
Slot ‘2’ is Empty
Slot ‘3’ is Empty
Local Drive Volumes
c: (NTFS on drive 0) 30.75 GB 29.20 GB free
d: (FAT32 on drive 1) 15.71 GB 15.71 GB free
e: (NTFS on drive 1) 24.29 GB 7.27 GB free
Network Drives
None detected
Users (mouse over user name for details) Printers
local user accounts last logon
dj 5/7/2002 12:53:16 AM (admin)
local system accounts
Administrator never (admin)
Guest never
HelpAssistant never
SUPPORT_388945a0 never
Marks a disabled account; Marks a locked account None detected
Controllers Display
Standard floppy disk controller
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
SiS PCI IDE Controller SiS 300/305/630/540/730 [Display adapter]
NUL 15.2 [Monitor] (15.2″vis, January 2001)
Bus Adapters Multimedia
SiS 7001 PCI to USB Open Host Controller (2x) MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device
SiS 7018 Audio Driver
Standard Game Port
USB Audio Device
Virus Protection [Back to Top] new Group Policies
No details available None discovered
Communications Other Devices
SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
primary Auto IP Address: *i took this out for secure reasons*
Gateway: *i took this out for secure reasons*
Dhcp Server: *i took this out for secure reasons*
Physical Address: *i took this out for secure reasons*
Networking Dns Servers: *i took this out for secure reasons*
*i took this out for secure reasons*
HID-compliant consumer control device (2x)
HID-compliant device (2x)
USB Human Interface Device (3x)
HID Keyboard Device
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
Microsoft PS/2 Mouse
USB Composite Device (2x)
USB Root Hub (2x)