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Zachary · #1 04-04-2008

I bought an additional 2 1gb sticks of PC3200 RAM, once it comes my PC will have it's maximum capabilities of 3GB DDR400 ram, the prospect of this excites me!
On another note, I know I have to edit a system file to get windows to recognize the whole 3gb, how do I do that?

D__ · #2 04-04-2008

32 bit windows can see up to 3.25gb of ram so you should be ok

ih8bills · #3 04-04-2008

Originally Posted by Zachary

I bought an additional 2 1gb sticks of PC3200 RAM, once it comes my PC will have it's maximum capabilities of 3GB DDR400 ram, the prospect of this excites me!
On another note, I know I have to edit a system file to get windows to recognize the whole 3gb, how do I do that?

It is 4 gigs that 32-bit systems can't see... and it allegedly still makes some use of the extra-- it just won't show in device mgr.