i need help with my ram i know that i got 1gb but at the moment for some reason the ram usage is on 1.54gb and the graph on the task manager isnt even half way up the chart its about 1/4 of the way

What applications are you using when it reports that it's 1.54 Gb?
If you are using a lot of resourceful applications, then it could be that your computer is also using Virtual RAM.

Jam

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i used task manager when i look at the cpu usage and ram usage

Well gandy, a motherboard usually has some amount of memory(kinda like ram) built in... In your case it seems to be quite alot... But also, if you are using your onboard graphics card then the system usually takes memory off of your ram to use it as graphics memory, so then if you go and put in a videocard (agp or pci-e) then the previously used ram suddenly looks like you have more ram.... Now if this is NOT the case then you might just have the wrong drivers for the motherboard... And well if that isn't the case either then, yes, the ram might be faulty... It will then be good to try to run some memory test programs...

i found out that its virtual ram because i got a second small hdd in my pc now and when i changed the virtual ram from the c drive to the new d drive then my computer isnt as slow as when it was using virtual ram from the c drive all my programs are on the c drive and thats why it was so slow