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Ram question

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If you installed 4gb of ram of which XP (32bit) will only see 3.5gb, could you use the missing portion of ram to setup a ramdisk or would XP place this in the 3.5gb section?? Just something I was wondering?? Tim

Name: jefro
Date: September 30, 2008 at 14:03:31 Pacific

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If the bios and chipset also support that much ram then my guess is yes. I may have to study up on that now that I say that. "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10

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Name: jam
Date: September 30, 2008 at 14:09:34 Pacific

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See the post below this one. "If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions" - Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) in Pulp Fiction

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Suitably answered, thank you. Tim

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Name: aegis
Date: September 30, 2008 at 16:34:01 Pacific

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The "missing portion" is missing because the Operating System needs those memory addresses, and they are reserved for the Operating System.

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