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December 20th, 2007
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| Join Date: Aug 2007
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|  4gigs ram installed, 2 gigs showing?? Running Windows Vista and XP.... Had 2 gigs of ram and I just installed another matching set... so I have 4 gigs total.... Neither Vista or XP is showing the second pair..... Is there somehting wrong?? All I did was unhook everything... install the same type of memory as what was in there and rehooked the computer up and powered up.......?? anyone have any sugestions?? I thought XP recognizes up to 4 gigs??? I figured Vista Ultimate 32 bit would for sure???? thanks...  E6600 Dual Core @3.4GHZ (1511 FSB)@1.325volts 2x 8800 GTX KO ACS3 PCI-E 630MHZ 768MB 2.0GHZ Raptor 74GB WD Caviar 250GB HD Antec 1200 Hundred Case 4 gigs of Corsair XMS2 TWIN -6400C4 2GB DDR2-800 CL 4-4-4-12-2T 680I SLI LGA775 MOBO Samsung DVD+RW Enermax Galaxy 1000 wats PSU 24" Samsung SynMaster Cooling: Swiftech Dual rad Swiftech Micro Res Swiftech Apogee GT Cpu block 2x Koolance 8800 GTX Full Coverage Water blocks Feser One Blue Fluid |
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December 20th, 2007
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| Foto Lord  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Pacific Grove, CA
Posts: 4,387
| Re: 4gigs ram installed, 2 gigs showing?? Only XP and Vista 64-bit will recognize all 4GB. It is normal, your not doing anything wrong, But if you want to utilize all 4GB, you need to get a 64-bit OS. E8400 DFI Blood Iron P35-T2RL 4GB G.Skill 800MHz Sapphire Radeon HD3870 512MB Silverstone DA650W WD 250GB + Seagate 320GB |
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December 20th, 2007
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| ako the pinoy  Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: by the beach
Posts: 1,698
| Re: 4gigs ram installed, 2 gigs showing?? ditto+ good call YH... Abit IP35-E C2D E6750 G0 @ 2.66ghz [TR Ultra120EX] EVAG 8800GTS [TR HR03] Corsair [2gbDual@800] 820GB HDD[120/200/500] Antec TP 550W Silverstone Temjin 09 Saitek Eclipse1 & Razer DeathAdder Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit |
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December 20th, 2007
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| Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 284
| Re: 4gigs ram installed, 2 gigs showing?? OKay I thought so. I only picked it up because it was on sale after a rebate for 59 bucks.... So just to be clear.... the memory is sitting there doing nothing??? Or is it working but it just doesn't show up? Sorry.... but I just wanna be aware... :) E6600 Dual Core @3.4GHZ (1511 FSB)@1.325volts 2x 8800 GTX KO ACS3 PCI-E 630MHZ 768MB 2.0GHZ Raptor 74GB WD Caviar 250GB HD Antec 1200 Hundred Case 4 gigs of Corsair XMS2 TWIN -6400C4 2GB DDR2-800 CL 4-4-4-12-2T 680I SLI LGA775 MOBO Samsung DVD+RW Enermax Galaxy 1000 wats PSU 24" Samsung SynMaster Cooling: Swiftech Dual rad Swiftech Micro Res Swiftech Apogee GT Cpu block 2x Koolance 8800 GTX Full Coverage Water blocks Feser One Blue Fluid |
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December 20th, 2007
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| Foto Lord Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Pacific Grove, CA
Posts: 4,387
| Re: 4gigs ram installed, 2 gigs showing?? I'm not sure... I think the system uses the extra RAM in the background, but I can't be sure... I'd like to know as well! E8400 DFI Blood Iron P35-T2RL 4GB G.Skill 800MHz Sapphire Radeon HD3870 512MB Silverstone DA650W WD 250GB + Seagate 320GB |
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December 20th, 2007
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| Meow means woof in cat.  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Elba, AL
Posts: 1,910
| Re: 4gigs ram installed, 2 gigs showing?? It's just sitting there, 32-bit OSes can not address more than 4GB (I think, may be 3.5GB) of memory, including caches and such. I think that it may also include vRAM, but I'm not sure about that Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Conroe @ 2.80GHz Cooler Master GeminII - Thanks Rich and HL! GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 (rev. 1.3) EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB @ 726/962 CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (4 x 1GB) DDR2-800 OCZ GameXStream 600W PSU Maxtor 300GB 7200RPM SATA150 16MB cache HDD Seagate 500GB 7200ROM SATA300 16mb cache HDD Sony NEC Optiarc 18X DVD±R DVD Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 7.1 ZyXel m-202 802.11g adapter Antec Nine Hundred Creative 5.1 speakers Viewsonic Optiquest q20wb 20" LCD |
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December 20th, 2007
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| Eat from the right tree Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 837
| Re: 4gigs ram installed, 2 gigs showing?? Somethings not right ... even with 32 bit OS you should be seeing 3-3.25GB |
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December 20th, 2007
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| T-Rex  | Re: 4gigs ram installed, 2 gigs showing?? Quote:
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December 20th, 2007
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| 5GHz 24/7  Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 1,138
| Re: 4gigs ram installed, 2 gigs showing?? with XP and 4 GB or RAM installed, my system saw about 3.2 GB which makes sense because of the 768 MB on my 8800. his videocards take up 1.5 GB of memory so that puts him around 2.5 GB which brings up a good question - exactly how much is showing up? just 2 GB?  |
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December 20th, 2007
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| Colonel Calamity  | Re: 4gigs ram installed, 2 gigs showing?? May want to get another hard drive and install a 64-bit linux to play around with and see how well 4GB does work.  Thanks HL and Corsair! My opinions are my own and not representative of this site or its members.  |
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