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XP Reports HALF as much Memory?
Name: pgtr Date: February 20, 2009 at 16:39:22 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: E4500 @ 2.2GHz Product: Gigabyte, mushkin / Gbyte p-35 Subcategory: General
Comment:
I had 2 GB of DDR2 in my Gigabyte P35 MoBo. I recently installed 4 more GB of matching DDR2. At boot up post time it reports:
"6290368K MEMORY"
Or 6GB as you'd expect. It also says 6GB in BIOS. But in Windows XP it only reports:
"3.25GB of RAM"
Where did the other half of the memory go? Does the fact that the MoBo has a Core 2 Duo processor installed half the memory for each core?
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