Ram came through but its not working.

[watforddude]

I put both sticks in and when it boots up it says its in dual channel mode etc, but when i go to control panel and system it shows 1GB but the first time it booted up and told me i was in dual channel mode it sent me to the bios? i dont know if i was ment to change anything.#

oh and another thing, on the bios it says ive got 2048 of phyical ram but still dont understand why it still only says 1GB on the system part when i go to performance and maintanace

[Jasp]

Vista? try run>msconfig>boot>advanced panel, under max memory if its ticked, untick and reboot PC then check again.

Not sure if this remains the same for XP but worth checking.

[watforddude]

No im on XP but would that box still be there? even when i upload rig information it says 1Gb and loading times on cod2 are no faster.

[watforddude]

also just ran DXDIAG and it says 1024 of RAM aswel. what is going on

[jim]

Check your boot.ini file in the root of the boot drive, see if it lists a maxmem value.

If you can't find it (bear in mind you need to set hidden and system files to viewable to see it), go to System Settings --> Advanced --> Startup and recovery and click on Edit.

I haven't used XP in a long time, so I hope that's right.

[watforddude]

not to worry went down to PC world and baught vista its showing the RAM its as quick as poo off a shovel

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

You should have installed Windows 7 RC1 instead as it is free until March.