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Need help with laptop

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Sniper82

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I have a older Gateway Solo 5150(PII 333mhz). It has 32mb onboard,32mb stick and a 64mb stick. For some reason the 64mb stick is only being shown as 32mb. Any ideas what the problem could be. The laptop takes up to 128mb per slot(288 total).

I tried switching the sticks around with no luck. Could it be a faulty stick?
 
Nah, it's likely the chipset. The TX, VX and FX can only cache up to 64megs of memory. You likely have the FX, or a variant of the FX.
 
I doubt it's using all 128. The memory modules for that system don't have to be the same size, so that's not it. Couldn't find any hints at Gateway's 5150 page. Perhaps it's double-sided RAM in a single-sided slot? (probably not).

Hopefully someone else here might have an idea.
 
Maybe you can find another computer that will show the memory modules' capacity. Try using a program like CPUZ with the 'defective' module and try to get up on the stats of it, if it says 32MB it's probably 32MB. Your system is a PII so it's probably got the LX chipset and so I think the chipset is not the problem.
 
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