HP Pavilion DV6000 recognizing only 512 MB of Ram 1 GB

Hi, Ive had my laptop DV6000 for about 4 or 5 years now. I thought about buying a 2 x 1 GB ram sticks to increase the ram. In the system information, he tells me I have 512 MB of ram, but when I unscrew the laptop I see that I have 2 sticks of 512 MB. The laptop came with Windows XP Media Center edition and went to vista and now windows 7 Edition home premium. Any help is appreciated!

You can try to re-seating the RAM and see if the system captures the change, or exchanging sticks in memory across banks to see if one of the sticks is bad or if it is one of the banks.

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