Win XP only seeing 756MB of RAM.

Horizon

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When I built my machine, I put in 2 sticks of Crucial 512, hoping for a total of 1024. Why does WinXp only utilize 756?


~Taylor
 

Arrow

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Which motherboard is this?
Does the full amount show up at POST?

Rob
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FatBurger

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And what do you mean when you say WinXP doesn't use all of it. Does it not show the correct amount?

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