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SMGOwnage

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Hello today I bought a new 2GB stick of RAM DDR2 Desktop for my computer. I originally had a 1 GB DDR2 Stick of ram along with A 512 MB DDR2 RAM chip also.

I took out the 512 MB RAM piece and put in the new 2GB RAM piece and it worked. Here is where the problem arises. The original 1 GB Stick wasn't detected in the system BIOS or Windows but CPU-Z detected the 1 GB stick.

I switched around the RAM pieces but still doesn't detect it.

Anyone would like to help me please?? I would love for this RAM to work!!!

I will provide more info as people ask me.
 
Thanks for the fast response.

I will do a run of memtest86 but if I'm going to do memtest86 do i have to run this overnight?

And I don't need to burn it I already have it in the boot menu from when i installed Ubuntu. :D
 
It's recommended to run it overnight, but check back in an hour to see if there are any errors, and if there are, then its a bad stick.
 
Ok cool thanks alot for your help.

I will have my iPod touch so I am still open to suggestions.

:D

BTW: It's not the new stick that's bad it's the older one that isn't showing up.
If all else fails I still have my 512 MB RAM stick. :D
 
Just good 'ol Windows XP Home SP3. Getting an upgrade to Windows 7 very soon. EDIT: Finished first pass of memtest scan, no errors. I'm gonna stop scan now.

AND ANOTHER EDIT: To answer your question clapton, No the BIOS doesn't detect the 1 GB RAM stick (the older one) but detects the newer one fine.

So what should I do here guys????
 
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If you computer isnt detecting the stick of memory, running memtest is a waste of time. What make a model computer is this or the motherboard make and model?
 
If you remove the new stick and just use the old stick does the bios and windows recognize the memory? And as Stranglehold as said, what system is this?
 
The make of the computer is a HP Pavillion. The motherboard and the model is an ECS Alhena5. I will try taking out the newer ram and see if it detects it.

EDIT: I took out the 2GB RAM Piece and now Windows detects the 1 GB Stick now. I'm thinking that the 2 are conflicting. Any ideas on how to fix?? Thanks so much for your help so far.
 
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according to the mainboard listing it says that the max supported memory is 2Gb, so i assume thats 2x1 gig, so i dont think that motherboard supports densities higher than 1 gigabyte.
 
SMGOwnage said:
Hello today I bought a new 2GB stick of RAM DDR2 Desktop for my computer. I originally had a 1 GB DDR2 Stick of ram along with A 512 MB DDR2 RAM chip also.

I took out the 512 MB RAM piece and put in the new 2GB RAM piece and it worked. Here is where the problem arises. The original 1 GB Stick wasn't detected in the system BIOS or Windows but CPU-Z detected the 1 GB stick.

I switched around the RAM pieces but still doesn't detect it.

Anyone would like to help me please?? I would love for this RAM to work!!!

I will provide more info as people ask me.
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SMGOwnage said:
The make of the computer is a HP Pavillion. The motherboard and the model is an ECS Alhena5. I will try taking out the newer ram and see if it detects it.

EDIT: I took out the 2GB RAM Piece and now Windows detects the 1 GB Stick now. I'm thinking that the 2 are conflicting. Any ideas on how to fix?? Thanks so much for your help so far.
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Maximum HP/Compaq approved memory is 2 GB
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&docname=c00864922

It has a 2gb. max limit.
 
This board is quite old and doubt they would have made a bios update for higher ram capacity. In short, you basically need a new system.
 
Yeah I might need to start saving hard then!!

Thanks so much for your help guys. I would of been left clueless if it wasn't for you guys!!
 
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