win xp, System Information. How accurate is it?

[QueBert]

when my PC POST's it says 512megs for memory. I was poking around in XP and System Information is reporting 256 megs of physical memory with 153 avail.

MB is th Gigabyte GF3, memory is Corsair XMS Pro 1 512 meg stick. What else can I check in XP to see what kind of memory is reporting?

 

[dew042]

Right click on My computer, go to Properties and it will tell you the total system memory.

dew.

 

[jamesbond007]

Originally posted by: QueBert
when my PC POST's it says 512megs for memory. I was poking around in XP and System Information is reporting 256 megs of physical memory with 153 avail.

MB is th Gigabyte GF3, memory is Corsair XMS Pro 1 512 meg stick. What else can I check in XP to see what kind of memory is reporting?

Sounds like you might have a bad stick of RAM or it's just possibly not seated right. Or you actually have a 256MB stick, not 512MB. Do you have a videocard that's onboard that would be sharing the RAM? When you say you have 153MB available, is that by looking at the taskmanager's performance tab?

 

[QueBert]

forgot to mention, under my computer properties it's showing 512 megs. I don't know what to think.