yeah.. so. i'm all excited cuz my mommy bought me a stick of 512mb of ram right.. so.. i come back to colorado, open up the trusty ole' computer, put it in.. oh.. then my moniter went all crazy. well, finally got that fixed. but i have in memory bank 0 - 64 mb
memory bank 1 - 128 mb
memory bank 2 - 64 mb.

now, the stick of 512 is in bank 1. but it only detects 128 of it.. what the fuck is going on? can any one help me out? i didn't think that the 2 sticks of 64 would work with the 512, but apparently they do. but it's only detecting 128. blahhhh! i am pissed! if anyone knows what's up please help me! i'm going crazy

by the way, i'm running Windows ME..don't know if maybe it's my shitty OS..

Dial U for Upgrade!!!!

my advice is to go to XP, just get it off kazaa,
done and done

If it was a problem with only the OS detecting it, I don't think it would still show correct amount at BIOS startup. I tried upgrading the BIOS. Fixed problem on my computer. Unfortunately the bootdisk doesn't work like described. The utility cannot come up and it prompts me for the NTLDR missing error. Jesus, that error annoys the fuck outta me.

Anyways, so asking gateway how come it says instructions for ALL OSes. When, not only do the instructions not work with WinME, but WinME was installed by manufacturer, so they should have atleast that.

First off, how much ram does your mother board support?

yeah..the tech guy said only 384.. fucker! but, he said a bunch of other crap. here's what he said :
Please note that your motherboard supports a maximum of 384MB of SDRAM
(CAS latency of 2) using 64Mbit chips.

ok.. why doesn't my computer detect 384 from the 512 stick then? cuz it detects 128. and another thing, how the hell can i put 384mb of ram using multiple sticks of 64mb in my computer when it only has 3 slots for it? yeah.. i can't. so that is dumb. oh, and i also want to know wtf the CAS latency of 2 thing means.

he never answered my question as far as how to update Windows ME BIOs. can anyone help with that one? cuz the instrucions on the gateway site do not do it. thanks!

fleshy

yeah on my MB i have 3 slots but it only supports up to 512. i have 2 sticks of 256 and an empty slot for nothing. You dont want to update your windows ME BIOS. And by doing this you void your gateway warranty they wont help you to do this at all. TRUST ME. (I wish i still had my log of the "conversation" I had with their tech.) But you need to find your motherboard manufactuer. If you need help to ID your MB
http://www.motherboards.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=2
ten find out if your MB bios has any updates that allow for more RAM.
As for latency I think he's talking about the speed but i doubt it matters since your bus speed is probably slower than the RAM

Solution one pick up a new MB, solution two smack the idiot who built your computer. actualy I think one and two kinda go together, and as far as upgrading to XP, I wouldn't until they get more of the bugs fixxed, ALL ABOUT WIN98!!

XP isn't that bad, and it isn't as buggy as you think. My present uptime is 5 days, get on the irc and i'll even show you lol... My max uptime on XP is 4 months, try that on 98...

XP by far has better resource usage than 98 and ME combined, it also doesn't crash as much as 2000 (i know at least 4 users here who have had that issue).

WindowsXP has not once crashed, hung, BSoDed, faltered, screwed up in any way for the year I've had it installed. Rock-solid comes to mind. If only it wasn't made by microsoft and bundled with all the other shitty microsoft programs like IE and wizards.