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Hi,

I've got two sticks of Patriot 5300 2GB installed which replaced the two 1GB Kingston OEMs. Belarc reads the following;

Slot 'DIMM 1' has 2048 MB
Slot 'DIMM 2' has 2048 MB

2750 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

2.7 usable??? Why upgrade for so small a performance boost? It "sees" the 4 GB, but uses only .7 of the EXTRA 2 GB. Is there something I can do to increase this number? Here's the specs:

Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv6000 Windows Vista Ultimate Service Pack 2
1.80 GIGAHERTZ AMD Turion 64 X2


Thanks for UR suggestions.You will need to run a 64bit OS to use any more than 2.7/2.8G of RAM...
This is a limitation of the OS itself...Quote from: patio on July 25, 2009, 08:08:04 AM

You will need to run a 64bit OS to use any more than 2.7/2.8G of RAM...
This is a limitation of the OS itself...
Sorry, not true.
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEmem.mspx

Add the /3GB switch to the boot.ini FILE and see what is reported.

In the OP's case, I suspect 256MB is being allocated for video memory, hence 2.7 instead of 3.0


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