{"id":7872,"date":"2021-11-25T11:34:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T11:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=7872"},"modified":"2021-11-25T11:35:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T11:35:13","slug":"kingston-2gb-ddr2-module-suddenly-fell-to-1gb","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/hardware\/kingston-2gb-ddr2-module-suddenly-fell-to-1gb\/91852.html","title":{"rendered":"Kingston 2GB DDR2 Module Suddenly Fell To 1GB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everybody,<\/p>\n<p>I bought for of these modules yesterday for my HP DC7800 CMT and installed them.<br \/>\nwhen checked using RamMon, it showed four modules of 2048 MB in a windows 7 64-bit Ultimate Edition environment.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link to the uploaded photo of the RAMs<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160808090429\/http:\/\/oi61.tinypic.com\/2j4ssr5.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/oi61.tinypic.com\/2j4ssr5.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today when I checked, it started showing 1024 MB instead of 2048 MB, I checked it everywhere, even in BIOS, it now shows 1024 MB everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Fixes Attempted:<br \/>\n1. Reset BIOS (Both by pressing reset button and taking out board battery)<br \/>\n2. Flashed BIOS<br \/>\n3. Removed All extra hardware<br \/>\n4. Used on Ram stick instead of 4<br \/>\n5. Mixed it with different frequency\/capacity ram modules<\/p>\n<p>So far nothing seems to work<\/p>\n<p>Now I am thinking may be the RAM module is of 1024 MB but if that&#8217;s true, why did it show 2048 Initially.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Could any of you help me with the problem<br \/>\nThese modules were sold to me as DDR2, PC2-6400, 800MHZ and 2GB per module.<br \/>\nAre they really of 2GB and if they are why am I getting only half of each (resulting in 4096 MB instead of 8192 MB)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks In advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":3},"question-category":[47],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-7872","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-hardware"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/7872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=7872"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=7872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}