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Old 10-30-2006, 05:36 AM   #1 (permalink)
 
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I have a 512 mb and a 256 mb stick of ram in my computer. I have recently cleaned the heatsink on my cpu. I did chip the CPU when trying to get the heatsink off. I thought that the CPu would not work after being chiped off the edge but it did.. But my when I right click My computer it says 256 Mb but when i go into cpuz it say 768... whats going on
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Old 10-30-2006, 09:16 AM   #2 (permalink)
 
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That has happened to me before Try switching the ram in different slots.. That worked for me.
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