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| Memory - 3 + gigs of ram in xp posted in the Hardware forums; i just installed my 2nd pair of ram in my pc. now im up to 4 gigs. 1 problem. xp wont see more then 2.5gbs. bios sees 4. i know ... |
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3 + gigs of ram in xp
i just installed my 2nd pair of ram in my pc. now im up to 4 gigs. 1 problem. xp wont see more then 2.5gbs. bios sees 4. i know i have to change the boot.ini but its not working. anyone got any ideas? here i my boot.ini multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn /3GB
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Re: 3 + gigs of ram in xp
I assume you meant that Windows sees 3.5GB. It is a limitation of the 32bit OS, they cannot access over 3.25GB of Memory. It is not a problem with the memory, or your computer. The extra memory you gained should be worth wha tyou spent on it.
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Re: 3 + gigs of ram in xp
no its 2.5 lol not a typo. xp sees 2.50gb of ram. my bios sees 4
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Re: 3 + gigs of ram in xp
wierd. lol in system manager it only sees 2.5? downlaod everest from my sig and see what it says will ya? thanx
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Re: 3 + gigs of ram in xp
i ran cpuz and it shows 4096mb of RAM. so i know its working right
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Re: 3 + gigs of ram in xp
Gotta use Win 64 to see all 4 in a normal way. 4GB under Win 32 only buys you 1gb for OS/caching, 3gb for programming, but I still dont think it shows up that way. Or you could run a real OS like linux  -G
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