Hey Budley,

Let's say for a moment that the BIOS update was a fluke, and it just happened to show 2gig that one time. I only say this because ASUS (the manufactuerer of your motherboard) have never released any BIOS updates that directly affect RAM, nor would both HP and ASUS ship their products with this kind of obvious and hard to miss fault to thousands, most likely millions of it's customers.

If your RAM is only showing 1gig, than the most likely problem is either that the memory is faulty, or it's not correctly seated in it's slot. The first thing I would try budley is to reseat both chips, which is very easy to do. Open up your PC and find you RAM slots. There are two plastic holders either side of the slot, which you pull in the direction away from the RAM to release. Then slot them back in again until they click back into place.



If that fails, try one chip at a time. If one of the chips is faulty, it won't start, and will beep at you instead (no ram to boot with). At this point, if it's a new PC, contact HP and ask for a replacment.

cool thanks! Hmmm you say "beep". Whats weird is about 2 months ago I started to get a BSOD and I think it had to do with my memory. and when this started sometimes when I power'd-down, it wouldnt actualyl powerdown, but make a beeping noise. I thought it was just a little faulty bug or something, but maybe this was a ram problem, and what was possibly causing my BSOD.

Faulty RAM is actually the most common cause of BSOD's too.

I finally got my computer apart and got to the RAM ~ boy was that fun... but anyways i took them out. Cleaned them from dust, and I put them back in. I rebooted, checked the BIOS, and what do you know? 2gigs!!!! woot! I wanna thank everyone who responded to me. Keep up the great work!

i should have thought of that first.... oh well. lol good job madmonkey.

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