Hello:

I have one question with my new build.

e2180
2GB kingston RAM
ep35-ds3l
8800gt 512 MB


I put in two 1G modules of Kingston RAM. When the machine boots – the very first screen shows the RAM count as 512 MB?!

However, as WIN XP loads and I right-click on 'my computers' and click properties I get to see 'E2180 @ 2.00 Ghz, 2.00 Ghz, 2.00 GB of ram'.

What is going on – is this a problem at all? Needs any fixing? (the machine is running smoothly and easytune shows idle temps of cpu/sys = 19/27). But I'd like to see the ram count to be 2 GB (since I paid for 2GB).

Is the count the VRAM count? How do I fix it?

Thanks.

Google memtest, write it to disk, boot it up, how much ram is shown?

its probably the 8800gt memory its displaying before you see the post screen

yes that's just the vram count.

I assume you're using Gigabyte ep35-ds3l, if you see the gigabyte logo [fullscreen] during boots then you will not see the system RAM count.

you can disable "quick boot/silent boot", etc in the bios setting so you get the RAM count screen instead the gigabyte logo during boot.

Yeah, my DFI board has an entry called "Logo Screen" or something like in the BIOS you can enable or disable (it's enabled by default) that you have to turn off in order to see the entire POST process from the start, which begins with your memory count.
Enabling the quick boot feature will disable the memory check, and a few other boot up features, like the floppy drive seek, but it will still display the total memory you have on board, it just won't go through the process of slowly counting it up. So to see it, you have to be fast! (and you have to have the logo screen disabled)