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roccenstein

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    All ram not showing up?
    « on: May 09, 2008, 06:25:34 PM »
    I have an Athlon 2.4ghz pc running Windows XP Pro with a Gigabyte M57SLI-S4 AM2 NFORCE 570 mobo, with 2gb ram.  I recently purchased (cheap!) 2gb from a friend who was tearing down his old PC and decided to install them in my system.  Yeah, I know 4gb is overkill, but I have it, so why not?  Anyway, I installed both chips, but my pc is only showing 3.25gb ram, instead of 4gb.  Why?  I know the max ram for my mobo is 4gb, so that shouldn't be a problem.  Suggestions?
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    homer



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      Re: All ram not showing up?
      « Reply #1 on: May 09, 2008, 06:35:25 PM »
      a 32bit OS will not see more then 3.25-3.5gb's of RAM. if you want to access the full 4gb, you will need to purchase a 64 bit OS.
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        Re: All ram not showing up?
        « Reply #2 on: May 09, 2008, 06:39:54 PM »
        Ahh, that explains it.  So if I don't switch to a 64bit OS it won't cause any problems though, right?
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          Re: All ram not showing up?
          « Reply #3 on: May 09, 2008, 06:41:22 PM »
          no. you will be fine, it just means that little bit of RAM will not be used.
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