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has my RAM screwed the pooch?

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linkmaster6

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Hey there,
Got my rig for Christmas Evga 775 SLi 680i Mobo, two 1GB sticks of DDR2 Kingston RAM, 7900 GS video card, Duo core 2 CPU, 250 GB Westner Digital HDD.
When I first put my system together I believe they were recognized as 2 GB total, I had FEAR installed could play with the graphics turned all the way up just peachy life was good. I uninstalled it in February/March cuz i need the drive space (😉 movies movies movies!), but I tried reinstalling it last month and it played like crap load times were bad the game played chuggish so I took a look at my system properties and loh and behold it says I only have 1 GB in my computer, Thought hmmm possible one of them isn't seated properly or was bad but with a little troubleshooting I found out that each stick is only regeristing as a 512. What is going on?

*During that period I never went into the CMOS, only thing i ever changed in there was that there was no floppy drive.
 
Woowwwww. I would borrow some known good RAM from a friend to check to see if the motherboard is still good.
 
I'd love to do that but i don't really have anyone local to me that has a computer that supports DDR2. really think its the mobo. could a bios upgrade help?
 
reset cmos and then see what shows in post. run memtest if all 2048 shows as suggested. i doubt its the ram, more likely your mobo.

btw, what bios are you on with that board now?

btw- you have one of the first evga boards, no? whats the part# near the dimms?
 
well i ran memtest on all unused memory for 6 hours and it found no errors, but when i try to put it to 2048 i get a message saying:
"Your version of Windows limits the amount of contiguous RAM a single pogram can allocate. To get around this, run more than one copy of MemTest simultaneously and set each copy to test a portion of available RAM. To start ... blah blah try 1024 MB or try even less..."
But when i try to run two copies it locks up (only had time to try two copies at once once tho). This is my mobo information:
p/n 122-CK-NF68-AR
NForce 680i SLI 0444506002220

Also I reset the CMOS yesterday to no avail. one of the guys in my class might have a rig that can handle my RAM so i can possible rule that out. give me a sec and i will check wat version of BIOS i have
 
bios would be p-23 or something, you can get updates here.

don't run memtest in windows, you want to isolate the ram. burn a cd with it (google) and boot it. i wouldn't imagine the sticks would just start showing as 512 rather than just erroring like crazy.

i'd still look at returning that board. you're out of school, right? that first revision board has alot of problems, thats why they allowed the free rma. my new board overclocks higher with less vcore. evga has good support, they should take it back.
 
the BIOS upgrade was a no go for helping my RAM situation ( I used the CD option for upgrading my BIOS). should it read "Phoenix- Award Bios V 28" ?
 
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