RAM

[Guest]

Allright, installed Vista Home Premium, no problems. But I also had
installed 2g more of RAM (for 4g total). Vista shows 3.25g. Any ideas??

 

[Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User]

That is all a 32bit system will show.. the system does use all of the RAM,
but you only get access to a little over 3gb of it directly.. 64bit systems
wil show and access 4gb and a whole lot more..

No, it isn't a rip-off..

 

[MICHAEL]

Allright, installed Vista Home Premium, no problems. But I also had
installed 2g more of RAM (for 4g total). Vista shows 3.25g. Any ideas??

That's normal for a 32bit OS to show. It's being used, just not displayed.

There's a more technical answer, and hopefully someone will
elaborate.

Just know, that's the way it is.

-Michael

 

[RGBean]

OK, I've got 4GB installed but it's only showing 2.0. What's the trick to
use more?

Rick

 

[Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User]

Suspect that two of the sticks are not compatible with the others..

 

[RGBean]

The Dell diagnostics show them just fine, and a couple of stand alone memory
testers also show no problems in all 4 GB. In fact when I switch the two
sets of 1GB sticks, it still shows just 2 GB.

Rick

 

[Piotr Wozniacki]

Allright, installed Vista Home Premium, no problems. But I also had
installed 2g more of RAM (for 4g total). Vista shows 3.25g. Any ideas??

Perhaps you should check the Memory Remap setting in you BIOS?

 

[RGBean]

I just got the answer from Dell. It seems that the MoBo from nVidia doesn't
recognize more than 2GB in a 32-bit OS because of the chipset with SLI video
support! <s> So much for a top-of-the-line 9 month old "Vista Compatible"
system!

Rick

 

[Ben Enfield]

This is a common "problem." 32 bit systems have a limitation of 4 GB of
memory, but not all of it is addressable. Although I could more fully answer
the question, it would be less complete than if you searched for your it
online.

Ben