not recognizing full memory in windows/ cd burner probs

[svtour]

a little while ago i built my aunt a computer. it has a athlon 1500+ with 128ddr and windows xp non-sp1. in the bios it recognizes 128mb, but i *think* when booting up it establishes 96. it also only recognizes 96 when you check properties on "my computer". whenever i try to make a cd using nero, the computer crashes or freezes. it also freezes/crashes when i try to "pick" the drive to burn with, because now it is selected as the image drive. any help would be great

 

[svtour]

first day of class bump

 

[bozo1]

Does you motherboard have built-in video? If so, that's where your missing memory went to.

 

[DeathByDuke]

also XP is very demanding on memory - 128Mb doesn't cut it - 256Mb is smoooth - just but give it 512Mb and its leaping for joy...

could also be why you can't burn properly as you don't have enough buffer memory free (especially if your burner doesn't have BurnProof)

 

[svtour]

yes it does have onboard video, thanks!