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 The 3GB-not-4GB RAM problem

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post Aug 10 2010, 09:33 PM

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QUOTE(kenshin84 @ Apr 19 2010, 10:50 PM)
Hi, Im new here, I have some problem with my comp, i have install up to 3.5 GB of ram (1 GB X 3 and 512 mb X 1) and my bios system shows only 2559mB of ram, the motherboard that im using it is asua P4P800-X and im using XP-32 bit as my OS, can some one help  icon_question.gif  me with it cos i read the manual and it not give much info about it, thanks in advance
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Your problem is not about the 32-bit or 64-bit limitation here. Some older chipsets have limitations on how much RAM can be detected at the hardware level - high density memory chips were not used at that time, therefore the chipset isn't able to detect all the memory on the RAM sticks. The result is you only get to use a certain amount of memory - in your case 3GB - which is able to be 'seen' by the chipset.

 

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