[bob23]

ok I JUST got a brand new PC and its not even a day old.

I paid for 2.00 gigs of ram and memtest says I have 1780 MB.....

YET my computer(system info ect) says I have 2 gb.

Whats going on!

Oh BTW Rise of Nations wont run on this comp... the setup says I have low memory or not any room for a swap file)200 gb HDD

[BASSMASTER]

Check your BIOS, what does that say? I could only guess that if you run Memtest while windows is running it's not reading it's full capacity.

Rise of Nations, I'm not sure, but maybe it prefers a certain size swap file regardless of how much RAM you have. Did you try adjusting your swap file?

[brady]

MEM Leak ! RUN ! lol

[brady]

1st. Test each stick...
2nd. Make sure that the sticks are in the correct slots.
If you have DIMM slots you could just need to move slots.
I Would definetly test each stick to make sure.

From past exp. Sounds like you have a memory leak for sure.

[BVR]

Your Video Card might be using some of the RAM.

[brady]

Does your RAM (in windows mem test) say its operating in Dual Channel ?

[bob23]

I'll check my BIOS.

Originally posted by BVR
Your Video Card might be using some of the RAM.

Its a 6800GT could that be it?

Also Rise of Nations ran fine on my old computer(it was a laptop).

Originally posted by bradybnmci
Does your RAM (in windows mem test) say its operating in Dual Channel ?

Hmmm I dont think it did.... at first it said I needed 2 copies of memtest to test it.

[RicoDirenzo]

I would say you definitely have a bad stick of memory. Load each of the sticks individually. If one stick is bad you will either get a cotinuous reboot or the mobo will beep for no installed RAM.