Okay, so I'm getting rather irritated at my computer and my luck with RAM in general here, I was hoping somebody could enlighten me. Okay, so for christmas I ordered 2 x 1GB sticks of ram and put them into my already 1GB computer (2 x 512) to equal what I was hoping was going to be 3GB ram. For now I won't rage too hard at one of these sticks of ram being crappy and me having to take it out, only leaving me with 2GB of ram. What I will rage about however is the fact that my computer is only recognizing 1.5GB of that ram.
So I'm thinking, oh lord, my luck with ram is terrible and yet another stick of ram (one of the old ones) suddenly began to get messed up. However, I don't get random computer restarts when these 3 sticks are in my computer and I also ran Memtest and nothing at all was wrong with any of my current ram. I downloaded CPU-Z and for some odd reason, this program is telling me I have the right amount of ram installed (2GB) but my System page, DXDiag and task manager still say I'm only using 1.5GB of it.
So to summarize, my 2 x 512mb sticks of ram refuse to work together when in the same computer now, even though they were working perfectly fine for months before I got the new 1GB stick of ram. My BIOS say my computer can handle 4GB of ram, so that's not a problem. Besides, when I first bought my new sticks of ram it was working fine for a while with 3GB of ram, then it started restarting and through Memtest I discovered one of them was faulty.
I don't claim to know what all of the numbers in CPU-Z mean when looking at the memory configuration, but maybe somebody here can either help me out by reading this or take a look at these pictures and tell me if something is happening that shouldn't be:
Memory Tab
SPD Stick 1
SPD Stick 2
SPD Stick 3
My system page telling me I have 1.5GB
So I'm thinking, oh lord, my luck with ram is terrible and yet another stick of ram (one of the old ones) suddenly began to get messed up. However, I don't get random computer restarts when these 3 sticks are in my computer and I also ran Memtest and nothing at all was wrong with any of my current ram. I downloaded CPU-Z and for some odd reason, this program is telling me I have the right amount of ram installed (2GB) but my System page, DXDiag and task manager still say I'm only using 1.5GB of it.
So to summarize, my 2 x 512mb sticks of ram refuse to work together when in the same computer now, even though they were working perfectly fine for months before I got the new 1GB stick of ram. My BIOS say my computer can handle 4GB of ram, so that's not a problem. Besides, when I first bought my new sticks of ram it was working fine for a while with 3GB of ram, then it started restarting and through Memtest I discovered one of them was faulty.
I don't claim to know what all of the numbers in CPU-Z mean when looking at the memory configuration, but maybe somebody here can either help me out by reading this or take a look at these pictures and tell me if something is happening that shouldn't be:
Memory Tab
SPD Stick 1
SPD Stick 2
SPD Stick 3
My system page telling me I have 1.5GB