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Hope I'm not making you people loose time over this.
I've got a 512MB "no-name" stick of SDRAM I inserted into an Intel CA810e motherboard that can take a maximum of 2 x 256MB sticks using 128Mb technology, the board can only use 128MB of it, can I improve on this?
At the first boot I got a message about SPD, but I didn't get this message on subsequent boots.
If the 512MB stick works at all, I would be surprised. What kind of memory is it (any specs/serials)? Generally, memory that is larger than the max doesn't work at all in my experience.
Generally if the BIOS is only reading the memory as 128MB then that is what would be being used. You could run the command top in a terminal window to see how physical memory is being used....
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