just swapped out a old motherboard for a slightly newr motherboard. Before I swapped I checked the amount of RAM on the new one(on RAM cards, duh) and it said like 95. So I decided I'd put the other set I had in(around 200??). When I reinstalled onto Hard Drive it told me 68Mb of RAM which is way off. So I put the other ones in and it says 95. I had to install win98 and then upgrade to xp(currently upgrading) because my xp disk is a burnt copy. The problem though is why is it reading the incorrect amount of RAM?It seems to be running fine and dandy, but worried none the less. Also will XP correct this "F" up?
2006-12-31 05:53:50 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
The other mobo has an integrated video adapter that uses the shared memory architecture. It uses system RAM instead of dedicated video RAM.
2006-12-31 05:58:58 · answer #1 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
XP won't correct the RAM. Either the motherboard has two memory sticks of 68+ value each or more, or a combination of 68+27, which is too odd. Either way, you don't have enough to run XP, which takes 124. If you get XP loaded, then click on Start, Programs, Accessories, System tools and System Information. This will tell you what you need to know. Sounds like you will have to serious beef up your memory to as much as the motherboard will handle, up to 512Mb if possible.
2006-12-31 06:00:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's no combination of memory to have 95MB. 32MB +64MB would be 96MB but that's an odd and very low amount of memory. Yes, it could have an integrated video chip but even then if it was showing 95MB or 68MB, whatever... these numbers just don't make any sense at all, even with tons of errors, it just doesn't make any sense.
If you had say 256MB and if 160MB were being used by an integrated video card then you'd have 96MB. But an integrated video card wouldn't be using 160MB, it would be using 16MB, 32MB, 64MB, 128MB or 256MB, it would not be using an odd combination.
There are no "arounds" or "likes" in the computer world. There are very specific memory amounts and combinations. There are no odd numbers in memory configurations. It's impossible to have 95MB of memory or any other odd number.
Check with the BIOS to see how much memory is installed and go from there. I won't deny that Windows might be having a problem here but until we can make sense of the numbers, it's almost impossible to guide you in the right direction.
2006-12-31 06:12:49 · answer #3 · answered by conradj213 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I can't answer that, but I would suggest that you break down and buy more RAM say a min of 512. I have xp with P4 1.5Ghz and 512mb ram, though I only have 20gig hd, and it runs great. My game machine is xp with i believe an overclocked thing P3, 2.25Ghz, 512 ram and 64 or it might be 128 video card with the 3d stuff
I get my computer shop to do most of my work because I might screw it up.
2006-12-31 06:14:56 · answer #4 · answered by biteme 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are using the built in video and are dedicating a lot of RAM for its use that may account for the discrepancy. Rather than use Dxdiagnostic try Speccy or Belarc advisor as the other program may have issues. As far as insufficient power causing a RAM misread - not hardly.
2016-05-22 23:58:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋