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From: Jeff Strickland on 18 Jan 2010 13:51
I'm looking at my brother-in-law's computer trying to figure out why it runs
so slowly. It has a Celeron processor running at 2.66Ghz, and 496M of RAM.

How does one arrive at 496M? I'm running defrag on it right now and can't
remove the RAM modules, so I'm in a bit of a holding pattern right now.

The machine has two RAM slots, and they are both filled. My logic says there
should be 512M (a pair of 256 sticks). 496M is 16M short of 512M, does this
indicate that a chip isn't working on one of the sticks?



From: JD on 18 Jan 2010 14:04
On 18/01/2010 6:51 PM, Jeff Strickland wrote:
> I'm looking at my brother-in-law's computer trying to figure out why it runs
> so slowly. It has a Celeron processor running at 2.66Ghz, and 496M of RAM.
>
> How does one arrive at 496M? I'm running defrag on it right now and can't
> remove the RAM modules, so I'm in a bit of a holding pattern right now.
>
> The machine has two RAM slots, and they are both filled. My logic says there
> should be 512M (a pair of 256 sticks). 496M is 16M short of 512M, does this
> indicate that a chip isn't working on one of the sticks?
>
>
>

Far more likely that it has on board GFX and the video memory is set to
16Mb in the BIOS

JD

From: Jeff Strickland on 18 Jan 2010 14:15

"JD" <No.Reply(a)Sorry.com> wrote in message
news:4b54b0c3$0$2492$db0fefd9(a)news.zen.co.uk...
> On 18/01/2010 6:51 PM, Jeff Strickland wrote:
>> I'm looking at my brother-in-law's computer trying to figure out why it
>> runs
>> so slowly. It has a Celeron processor running at 2.66Ghz, and 496M of
>> RAM.
>>
>> How does one arrive at 496M? I'm running defrag on it right now and can't
>> remove the RAM modules, so I'm in a bit of a holding pattern right now.
>>
>> The machine has two RAM slots, and they are both filled. My logic says
>> there
>> should be 512M (a pair of 256 sticks). 496M is 16M short of 512M, does
>> this
>> indicate that a chip isn't working on one of the sticks?
>>
>>
>>
>
> Far more likely that it has on board GFX and the video memory is set to
> 16Mb in the BIOS



I'm looking at the System Properties, General Tab. I can't come up with any
configuration that includes two sticks of RAM and arrives at 496M of
reported memory.

UPDATE
I pulled the sticks, and they are 256M. So, I ought to have 512M of reported
RAM. How can I have 496M?





>
> JD
>


From: Baron on 18 Jan 2010 14:21
Jeff Strickland Inscribed thus:

> I'm looking at my brother-in-law's computer trying to figure out why
> it runs so slowly. It has a Celeron processor running at 2.66Ghz, and
> 496M of RAM.
>
> How does one arrive at 496M? I'm running defrag on it right now and
> can't remove the RAM modules, so I'm in a bit of a holding pattern
> right now.
>
> The machine has two RAM slots, and they are both filled. My logic says
> there should be 512M (a pair of 256 sticks). 496M is 16M short of
> 512M, does this indicate that a chip isn't working on one of the
> sticks?

Jeff ! How about video memory !

--
Best Regards:
Baron.
From: Jeff Strickland on 18 Jan 2010 14:26

"Baron" <baron.nospam(a)linuxmaniac.nospam.net> wrote in message
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> Jeff Strickland Inscribed thus:
>
>> I'm looking at my brother-in-law's computer trying to figure out why
>> it runs so slowly. It has a Celeron processor running at 2.66Ghz, and
>> 496M of RAM.
>>
>> How does one arrive at 496M? I'm running defrag on it right now and
>> can't remove the RAM modules, so I'm in a bit of a holding pattern
>> right now.
>>
>> The machine has two RAM slots, and they are both filled. My logic says
>> there should be 512M (a pair of 256 sticks). 496M is 16M short of
>> 512M, does this indicate that a chip isn't working on one of the
>> sticks?
>
> Jeff ! How about video memory !
>

I'm just looking at the RAM that's reported on the System Properties,
General Tab. I have two 256M modules installed, but only 496M is reported.

Are you saying that video can grab 16M and keep it from being reported in
the total memory installed?





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