T43 System does not see all of the RAM installed.

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aleksandrik · #1 Post by **aleksandrik** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 7:02 am

Hello

And straight to the point. I have an IBM T43 notebook (it is my first notebook

and I am really pleased with it), which came preconfigured with 512 MB of RAM.
Later on I have brought and installed additional 1GB of RAM (IBM Made) into my system's empty RAM slot at the bottom.
So the total RAM installed should be 1,5 GB, and it was for many months, until recently.

Couple of days before, I have noticed, that system shows 1GB of RAM, interesting huh, I thought, maybe a Windows error !?

But later on I decided to check one more time, and surprise surprise - 1 GB of RAM according to Windows System Information, PC Doctor, which came with my system, but more astonishing is that BIOS also shows that I have 1 GB of RAM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What ???!!!!

It seems to me that probably something is wrong with 512 RAM stick, maybe it is even dead or sort of. Any suggestions what might be the problem?

Once I have seen information about what is installed in the first RAM slot and the second one, but this time I could not find it, maybe it was in PC doctor or Access IBM software, can you please provide me a clue of there else I can look for this kind of info!

I had an idea of pulling out a 1GB stick, and see what happens, but it came in so painfully last time during the installation

, so I really really do not want to do this procedure one more time.

Seems it is time to visit IBM Service Center, one more time

, anyway, but still it is interesting to hear what you think about this issue.

Best Regards
Aleksandr

padpad · #2 Post by **padpad** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:01 am

did you bought that 1gb ram from a trusted store? maybe it's a 512mb one.

aleksandrik · #3 Post by **aleksandrik** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:21 am

padpad wrote:did you bought that 1gb ram from a trusted store? maybe it's a 512mb one.

Trusted one

of course

And during 3 mouth period it was 1,5 GB in BIOS and in Windows.
The trouble is, that now it is only 1 GB

bfgun · #4 Post by **bfgun** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 10:33 am

have you tried taking the keyboard off and reseating the 512 stick? happened to me once. took only 10 mins to do and everything was done.

either it's the memory stick or the bay.

aleksandrik · #5 Post by **aleksandrik** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 12:41 pm

bfgun wrote:have you tried taking the keyboard off and reseating the 512 stick? happened to me once. took only 10 mins to do and everything was done.

either it's the memory stick or the bay.

big thanks! Now it's back to normal!

T43 System does not see all of the RAM installed.

T43 System does not see all of the RAM installed.

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