PC's Memory...not reading.

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#1 Yoshi25
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In my PC I have 2 sticks of 512 MB.  Does anybody know why my computer is reading it wrong?  When I run 'dxdiag', it says I only have 638 MB.  Does anybody know why it is doing this?
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#2 LouieV13
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faulty ram? DL Memtest and see if there are any errors
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#3 subtec
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Do you have a PCIe/AGP video card, or are you using integrated graphics?

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#4 LouieV13
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Do you have a PCIe/AGP video card, or are you using integrated graphics?

subtec
Oh yea that too it could be stealing alot of RAM specially if its TurboCache or w/e ATi uses
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#5 X360PS3AMD05
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probably graphics.
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Well, I'm about to buy another stick of RAM....a 1gig.  Does anybody know how much I will have after I put the 1gig stick in my PC?
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#7 Yoshi25
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Do you have a PCIe/AGP video card, or are you using integrated graphics?

subtec

 I'm using an ATI Radeon Xpress 200 

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[QUOTE="subtec"]

Do you have a PCIe/AGP video card, or are you using integrated graphics?

Yoshi25

I'm using an ATI Radeon Xpress 200

That's integrated graphic.  

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#9 Runningflame570
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I'm using an ATI Radeon Xpress 200

Yoshi25

That could be your problem then, integrated graphics uses your system memory in place of its own. 

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#10 Yoshi25
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[QUOTE="Yoshi25"]

I'm using an ATI Radeon Xpress 200

Runningflame570

That could be your problem then, integrated graphics uses your system memory in place of its own.

 

That sucks.  So if I do buy that 1 gig stick, will I have 1,638MB or will it be lower b/c of my graphics card?

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#11 LahiruD
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[QUOTE="Yoshi25"]

I'm using an ATI Radeon Xpress 200

Runningflame570

That could be your problem then, integrated graphics uses your system memory in place of its own.

But it uses 64MB RAM.

I'm also using that 

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#12 Yoshi25
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Well, I switched my graphics card out with a Radeon 9250.....and it is still reading at 638MB RAM.......this blows
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