What steps did you take, before you purchased the RAM, to ensure that it was the correct RAM for your motherboard?

Ted Zieglar

"Mark" <Mark@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3CE379B3-34C3-4390-8EB1-AB6CD5A17A23@microsoft.com...
> ok.. well.. i had 256mb PC2700 RAM and decided to go right up and buy another
> 3 sticks of it to make a GB. All 4 sticks say PC2700 and fit into the memory
> slots.
>
> Now for some reason, my computer is not using these extra sticks of RAM no
> matter which order or how many i put in, it always says i have 256mb. The
> only time i have seen it say 1024mb is when i did a BIOS scan, and it also
> said there was room for double that amount.
>
> Well i dont have a clue about computers but its just like theres something
> holding the computer back from using anything bigger than the 256mb which
> makes my computer very slow
>
> My CPU speed is 2793mhz and my graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce 6200
> 512mb. So i think its just my RAM that is slowing my computer down especially
> when playing any graphically challenging games.
>
> Any help will be appreciated =) thanks