MSI 850e Max - memory test show 480mb?

Greetings all - Forum newbie here
My question is as follows: I have a MSI 6545 850e Max mobo with 2 Kingston 256mb Rambus modules. On boot, memory test shows approx 480mb system memory, not 512. I'm curious as to where the other 32 megs went? I ran 2 SyncMax 128 meg modules with correct memory count....
System specs:
850e Max mobo
Intel 1.6 P4
512mb (2x256) Kingston ECC Rambus
MSI Geforce4 ti 4600 128 mb video
40 gig WD hdd

Well I did some checking and I have one Toshiba Rimm and one Kingston Rimm. Funny thing though - MSInfo ( just how reliable I'm not sure) says I have 512 megs physical ram, DX Diag shows 480 etc. Is there any memory checking program can provide undesputed results? Thanks for all the help so far guys :-)

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Originally posted by jwspicer
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[edit]
Receiver was broken, replaced, config above is good.
Last edited by Thijxx (2014-11-17 07:55:21)

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