Hello
destruct61 :
My laptop originally came with two 128 mb sticks of ram.I wanted to install windows xp on it so I bought 2, 256mb ram sticks and put them in and turned it on and it said memory read write failure decreasing available memory so I let it boot up then went to system properties and it said I only have 256mb of ram please help!
Btw I have a latitude cpx j650gt
#. Try installing one module and keep the other slot and see if the error continues.
#. Repeat the process with the same module but install it in the next slot.
#. Try the same with the next 256MB module and repeat the above process.
Before trying this, updating BIOS is a good option. Also you could try running a memory test if the above process turns out unsuccessful. (Click here --->
memtest86)
Let me know how it goes. Good luck.