- Jun 18, 2016
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Recently I bought two new 4GB RAM sticks for my computer. Before, I had two 1GB sticks and two 512MB sticks to make a total of 3GBs.
If I have only the 4gig sticks installed and I try to turn on the computer, the tower turns on and all the fans are spinning but the monitor is not receiving and signal and as far as I can tell it does not boot up.
If I have the two 4gig sticks and the two 1gig sticks installed, the computer boots up fine but does not use the other 8gigs. When I open system information it says that I have 10 gigs installed but only 2 gigs of total memory. When I open the BIOS is says I only have 2 gigs of memory.
I have tried updating the bios which did not seem to change anything in the menu, I have tried moving the sticks around (I have four slots total) and that does not seem to matter.
System Specs:
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium SP2
Model: Inspiron 518
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Installed Physical Memory (RAM): 10GB
Total Physical Memory: 2GB
Any help with this is appreciated.
If I have only the 4gig sticks installed and I try to turn on the computer, the tower turns on and all the fans are spinning but the monitor is not receiving and signal and as far as I can tell it does not boot up.
If I have the two 4gig sticks and the two 1gig sticks installed, the computer boots up fine but does not use the other 8gigs. When I open system information it says that I have 10 gigs installed but only 2 gigs of total memory. When I open the BIOS is says I only have 2 gigs of memory.
I have tried updating the bios which did not seem to change anything in the menu, I have tried moving the sticks around (I have four slots total) and that does not seem to matter.
System Specs:
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium SP2
Model: Inspiron 518
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Installed Physical Memory (RAM): 10GB
Total Physical Memory: 2GB
Any help with this is appreciated.
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