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RAM Recognition Issue

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 6:14 pm
by Razorbacx
I have a friend that just handed me 4 GB's of DDR333 PC2700, so I yanked out my existing 1Gb stick of DDR400 PC3200 and installed the 4 sticks of the other. I booted up my system and checked system and win xp home only recognizes 3.25GB's. I'm sure that there has got to be a fix for this and I would appreciate your help.

Thanks in advance.

Razorbacx

System Specs:
AMD 3500+
ABIT AV8 Mobo
2 ea WD 80GB HD's
7800GS Video Card
BenQ DVD-RW Optical Drive
Win XP & Ubuntu (each on a separate drive)

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 6:50 pm
by DMB2000uk
Its the limit of windows using a 32bit addressing system. To get the whole 4GB showing up you need a 64 bit OS, like xp64, or, vista *shudder*.

Somebody said that there was a 'hack' knocking around on some other forum, but didn't say what it was or where it could be found, so I don't believe that there is one :P

Dan