RAM question....

I have recently installed some ram i got off of Crucial.com and they said it was compatible...yatta yatta yatta... so I just got it back from Best Buy because I dont want to waste the time and try to do it myself installing it... So I get it back and I run some free RAM free-er thingy and it says I only have 712 ram. I already had 512 and then got 512 more off the internet... which makes me kinda confused/****** off.... any suggestions if this is correct?

What program did you use to find out how much RAM you had?

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Its quite possible your machine could only support that ammount. Did you check to see how much ram your machine supported?

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I thought about it a while and came to the conclusion that I had 2 ram thingies of 256 each instead of what i believed was one 512... so yeah...

Get your board model and look up the specs on the manufacturers site to see how much it can hold. Sometimes they have a BIOS update that allows the board to utilize the full amount of RAM.

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In BIOS i think there is a option for you to enable to have more ram or make the size bigger....