Thanks for your post.

That is not the issue! Windows sees the extra memory and glass and Aero
kicked in! The problem is that "new hardware detected" is alwyes there and
windows won't update my score after hitting refresh many times. It still
says "new hardware detected"!!!!

Thanks again, hope someone can help out!

Lisa


"Shawn Keene" <shawn.keene@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:F32B1649-D068-4433-8720-8F04E13EC993@microsoft.com...
> The memory score is based on how fast the memory is, not how much you
> have. Well, that too... but primarily how fast it is.
> This is limited by your memory and your motherboard.
>
>
> "Lisa" <0678768@00000hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23o4FmXBeHHA.3956@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>I have a HP a1520y that I purchased before the vista release and came with
>>512MB of memory. It is vista ready. I got my free vista upgrade last week
>>and installed it over the media center OS. Two days ago, I finally got my
>>second stick of 512MB memory, same brand same specs.
>>
>> After the memory install and powering up I got a "new hardware detected"
>> message and I hit refresh to get it to update my added memory. It did
>> nothing, the base score is still the same after almost 20 refresh cycles.
>> The system sees the full 1GB of memory but did not change the memory
>> score of 2.0. I tested the memory few times with windows and other
>> applications and no errors! My next lowest score in the index is the Aero
>> performance which is at 3.2 so, memory is the only thing pulling my score
>> down.
>>
>> The "new hardware detected" message still shows up even after all the
>> refresh and update index cycles! The system seems to run fine and the
>> Aero and "nice" graphics kicked in automatically after adding the memory
>> but the system does not want to update the score. Any help or suggestions
>> are greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.
>>
>> Lisa
>