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4GB of RAM in Vista 32
Name: Scoilt (by scoilt) Date: March 2, 2007 at 20:18:46 Pacific OS: Windows XP Pro x64 CPU/Ram: Dual AMD Opteron 275 2.2 Product: Alienware MJ-12 7550a
Comment:
I have 4GB of RAM on my machine and Vista (32bit) is only reporting 2GB. I know that 32 bit OS will not show all 4GB (at least XP wouldn't) but shouldn't it report 3.5GB or something along those lines?
Name: Scoilt (by scoilt) Date: March 2, 2007 at 20:52:50 Pacific
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Bios reports 4GB. Vista x64 reports 4GB and XP x64 reports 4GB also...
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Response Number 3
Name: Sabertooth Date: March 2, 2007 at 21:30:29 Pacific
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This is by default - you can google up "the /3GB switch" & bump this up hopefully to 3.2GB, but you'll need to be running 64-bit version of Vista if you desire Windows to enumerate the correct 4GB memory size.
Name: kenb Date: March 12, 2007 at 01:39:09 Pacific
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Read the MS Support. Decided to remove I meg of ram from the 4 meg installed. Going on the principle that there may be a negative result of having 4 meg, have removed as above. I was preparing the comp for Vista, which I belive from my readings is 'Memory Hungry'. Memory has not gone to waste, added to other comp. As always advice from Computing Net is a good help.
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