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Another test for the gurus !

I have 2x256 ram sticks (PC100, low density, 8chips per side) loaded on my 600e, when I boot up I am seeing (556,480 OK) on the black screen. Does this mean that I am only getting 480mb of ram from my system ?

Also, can I just download memtest86+ to test my setup ?

I have some kinda funky issue going on because I keep getting the blue screen of death. I'm thinking that it is ram related.

Thanks Again,
Ronny

As I recall it, the bios will have to be at a certain level before a 600e can handle 512mb correctly.

I have the next to last BIOS so I'm ok.

I think that you are interpreting the number on the screen incorrectly. The "556,480" is the total number of KB (kilobytes) that the BIOS has identified. This is what you should see when there's two 256MB modules installed, in addition to the 32MB that is mounted on the motherboard, or a total of 544MB. There's this slight disconnect between 556,480KB and 544MB because a KB is really 1,024 bytes. So 1MB is really 1,024 x 1,024 or 1,048,576 bytes.

My own 600E with two low density 256MB modules also displays "566480 KB OK" and yes, memtest86+ will report (and test) your system memory.