Fail upgrade. 1GB of RAM missing from BIOS, also lost sound
Here we go, i had 2gb of ram installed on my pc since like 2 or 3 years and i decided to upgrade it, first problem came when i wasnt able to find any manuals or any information abouth my mobo, i could only find info about mobochipset and it said it support 4gb so i decided (after many hours looking for mobo info) to just buy 2 modules of 2gb each and just try luck since chipset supported it and i could give them back to shop in 10 days if i could not use them. Well, i installed them today and weird thing happens, OS recognizes 4gb and say it only uses 3gb, i tought thats ok cause its a 32bits windows 7, but Bios dettect only 3gb and so does Everest app. I dont get how can this be possible, and for more mess, i got no sound since i installed the 4gb it seems like i got no sound device installed (it was a realtek something from motherboard, not a external one). So this is it, how can i get back with sound? and more important how can bios recognize 4gb? since i guess its useless that windows reads the 4gb if bios dont reads them, im right? Thanks again, hope anyone of u knows what i have to do cause im totally lost and nobody seems to know whats wrong. Thanks!
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Answers & Comments
First, what is the computer Make and Model? You didn't supply the original Memory or the new Memory? DDR? DDR2? DDR3? ETC.? PC- ? MHz? Pin-? You bought 2x2GB's of WHAT? Does your Computer have Shared Graphics Memory?
The original were DDR2? Why not replace with DDR2? Aren't the Pin counts different? DDR -184, DDR2 -240 Take a look at this:http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?... Your ATI card is not a issue.
sorry misswrote it, original ones were DDR2 533, i replaced with DDR2 533