Added 512mb ram to G4 iBook - down to 256mb. What gives?

I added 512mb of ram (ram specs straight from G4 manual) to my G4 ibook for a total of 768mb of ram. I checked this in system profiler - perfect! 4 hours later my book froze and wa-la! I'm down to a total of 512mb ram. The 256mb installed (came w/ book) is ok and the extra 512mb i added today is down to 256mb. It's working but i lost 256mb. Anyone know why?
iMac G5 -250GB Hard Drive Mac OS X (10.4.3) FCE HD// Lacie 160GB External//

Hi Panfer,
Welcome to Apple Discussions
I am trying to piece together your problem in my head so please bare with me. So you added 512Mb of RAM to your soldered 256Mb and now it only shows 256Mb. I believe you RAM is defective or not properly installed. Where did you purchase the RAM module? Here is where you can find the manual provided by Apple on installing RAM. Try taking the module out and reinserting it.
I hope that helps,
Jon

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2001-2005 while I working on my undergrad I used a
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Dave). On my Performa 6360 Dave was a necessity,
since the campus dumped using Macs in 2002. I
remember my 1st year (2001-2002) I could access a
number of Macs on the Appletalk network at the time.
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used them in the 2003-2005 years.
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