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I'm having a problem with my machine not recognizing all my ram.

Presently I am running 2, 2GB sticks of Kingston PC5300, for a total of 4gb. My BIOS recognized 2 sticks with a total of 4gb AVAILABLE memory. Windows and CPUZ recognizes only 2.75gb of usable memory.

My motherboard is capable of running up to 16gb of DDR2, so I know it's not that.

I WAS running Windows XP, so I had expected there to be some misinformation REGARDING my RAM; however I'm now running Windows 7 with the same result.

I had the same thing happen on my old motherboard, so I know it's not the board.

And I've used other sticks of ram and it's the same thing.

What am I missing here? Windows 7 x86?Just... standard windows 7, 32bit?Quote from: moonbeamdanser on December 25, 2009, 11:52:04 PM

Just... standard windows 7, 32bit?
yeah, x86. that's why. you NEED a 64-bit VERSION or you won't be able to recognize more then around 3-4GB of RAM.I thought that that wasn't necessary when you upgraded from XP? Apparently I have lost my mind then.Quote from: moonbeamdanser on December 26, 2009, 09:50:27 AM
I thought that that wasn't necessary when you upgraded from XP? Apparently I have lost my mind then.

No, it's a inherent limitation of most 32-bit operating systems.Licensed Memory in Windows Vista


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