Ram problems

[LJN]

I have a problem, or I think its a problem. My ram default speed is 1600, but In the BIOS I get 1333. Now my mobo can go up to 2130 so thats not the problem. Anyone know why?

[[Pat]]

ok wait, you have 1.6Gigs of ram installed?

[LJN]

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[Nikentic]

No. The ram MHZ is 1600.

Try updating your bios, or check the bios ram settings.

[LJN]

No. The ram MHZ is 1600.

Try updating your bios, or check the bios ram settings.

Ok I'll try that

[[Pat]]

hmmm not really understanding but you never get 100% of anything when it comes to computers. My 1TB HDDs only have 931GBs of usable space but it's still a 1TB drive.

[Unholyshaman]

hmmm not really understanding but you never get 100% of anything when it comes to computers. My 1TB HDDs only have 931GBs of usable space but it's still a 1TB drive.

Yes but the 1TB problem has many causes :P such as space reserved for windows restore points, or you just got ripped off because of the way that computers count.

The fundamental problem stems from the fact that computers think in powers of 2 (1, 2, 4, 8, 16 and so on), while people think in terms of powers of 10 (1, 10, 100, 1000 and so on).

So to a computer, a kilobyte is 1024 bytes (2 to the 10th power). A megabyte is 1,048,576 (1024 times 1024, or 2 to the 20th). And a gigabyte is 1,073,741,824 (1024 times 1024 times 1024, or 2 to the 30th). Thus 80 gigabytes to a computer is 85,899,345,920 bytes.

But as I said, people don't think like that. We think of a kilobyte as "around" 1,000 bytes. Close. Close enough for most conversations. But when we think of a megabyte as "around" 1,000,000 bytes, and a gigabyte as "around" 1,000,000,000 bytes, we're getting less and less accurate at each step along the way.

To a computer, 80,000,000,000 bytes is really ... 74.5 gigabytes.

SO... if you're going to sell a hard drive that holds 80,000,000,000 bytes, and you have the opportunity to call it 80 gigabytes (in human terms) or 74.5 gigabytes (using computer terms), which would you choose?

[xipwnedux]

Put this in a notepad document, exactly as it is:

mystring=(80000000)



Save it as a .bat file. I have no idea what problem you have, but this seems to help me any time something is wrong for me

[chickowne444]

Put this in a notepad document, exactly as it is:

mystring=(80000000)



Save it as a .bat file. I have no idea what problem you have, but this seems to help me any time something is wrong for me

Trolled (fillarz)

[polarmike76]

Yes but the 1TB problem has many causes :P such as space reserved for windows restore points, or you just got ripped off because of the way that computers count.

Nah that's not how it works, during my A+ certification course... this question was brought up and it's actually because part of the hard drive is corrupted... You will most likely never get a perfect piece of RAM or HDD because it's near impossible not to get errors... it costs a ton more if you would like a perfect one..

[leftdead]

wtf is
mystring=(80000000)?

[kerigme]

Seriously just buy some new RAM...