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Omicron
Greetings All,
Here is my setup:
Windows XP Pro SP/2 with ALL updates (critical and otherwise). Product
is activated with MS.
Motherboard: ASUS P5NSLI with latest BIOS from ASUS
Pentium D 830 3.0GHz 2MB Cache 800 FSB Socket 775 Dual Core
Hiper 580W Modular Blue LED Power Supply
SeaGate 320GB SATA HD (97% Empty)
WesternDigital 80 GB IDE HD (99% Empty)
AOPEN DUW1616/ARR DVD-RW & JLMS DVD-ROM LTD-166S
Zalman CNPS9500 Blue LED Copper Heatsink/Fan
Cooler Master Mystique 632 Black Alumium w/Side Acrylic Panel
Virtual Memory handled by Windows
4 GB PC2 4200 CL4 240 PIN DIMM Kingston DDR2 RAM
Upon boot-up, POST shows me the full 4GBs of RAM.
Going into the BIOS also shows me the full 4GBs of RAM.
However, Windows Task Manager, as well as Sandra Professional Business
XI only shows that 2.75GBs of RAM are in the machine (2,882,028
bytes).
I've read about the "4GB limitation" of Windows XP 32-bit. However,
I've also read that other folks using Windows XP Pro get different
values of RAM when then have 4GBs in their box. I've seen numbers like
3.25GB and other values as well.
Editing the boot.ini file with such variations like the /3GB switch
and the /PAE switch do nothing to resolve my issues.
My question is:
Is there anything I can do, short of switching to a 64-bit OS, to
allow the use of the full 4GBs of RAM I now have or, at the very
least, anything that will let me use more then the 2.75GBs that
Windows is currently seeing?
Or am I just stuck with a gig that is doing nothing??
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards.
Here is my setup:
Windows XP Pro SP/2 with ALL updates (critical and otherwise). Product
is activated with MS.
Motherboard: ASUS P5NSLI with latest BIOS from ASUS
Pentium D 830 3.0GHz 2MB Cache 800 FSB Socket 775 Dual Core
Hiper 580W Modular Blue LED Power Supply
SeaGate 320GB SATA HD (97% Empty)
WesternDigital 80 GB IDE HD (99% Empty)
AOPEN DUW1616/ARR DVD-RW & JLMS DVD-ROM LTD-166S
Zalman CNPS9500 Blue LED Copper Heatsink/Fan
Cooler Master Mystique 632 Black Alumium w/Side Acrylic Panel
Virtual Memory handled by Windows
4 GB PC2 4200 CL4 240 PIN DIMM Kingston DDR2 RAM
Upon boot-up, POST shows me the full 4GBs of RAM.
Going into the BIOS also shows me the full 4GBs of RAM.
However, Windows Task Manager, as well as Sandra Professional Business
XI only shows that 2.75GBs of RAM are in the machine (2,882,028
bytes).
I've read about the "4GB limitation" of Windows XP 32-bit. However,
I've also read that other folks using Windows XP Pro get different
values of RAM when then have 4GBs in their box. I've seen numbers like
3.25GB and other values as well.
Editing the boot.ini file with such variations like the /3GB switch
and the /PAE switch do nothing to resolve my issues.
My question is:
Is there anything I can do, short of switching to a 64-bit OS, to
allow the use of the full 4GBs of RAM I now have or, at the very
least, anything that will let me use more then the 2.75GBs that
Windows is currently seeing?
Or am I just stuck with a gig that is doing nothing??
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards.