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The amount of system memory has changed

Yesterday when I bought the BenQ E2200 HD, I also bought two sticks of 2GB DDR2 SO-DIMM. Got my trusty precision screwdrivers, I upgraded both the DIMM A and DIMM B of my Inspiron 640m. DIMM B is quite straightforward, but DIMM A needed a little bit more work. See here for more info.

Anyway when I first booted up with the memory, I’ve been greeted with the message

The amount of system memory has changed.

Well there are other messages such as this can occur when you upgraded your memory (duh!) and please reseat your memory.

OK, fine then what?

That message fail to include “Please Enter F1 To Continue Anyway”.

I hit F1 because I’m a total geek. For the average user, I don’t think they will hit F1. Well the average user won’t be bother upgrading their ram anyway. After I hit F1, it will boot up Windows.

Anyway I am using the i945GM chipset, so the total addressable memory is 3.3GB RAM, although mine is 4GB. Windows Vista SP1 reports as 4GB when you right click My Computer->Properties because it can detect the two 2GB sticks. But if you look in the Peformance tab in task manager, you will see the real total physical memory available to the operating system.

Meh, at least it’s dual channel.

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