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takenby

Posted 09:18 am, 09/02/2010

windows takes up so much of your memory and usually dont show it all up and in worse case scenaroy it could bethe memory is bad but not likely

KingB

Posted 12:42 pm, 08/18/2010

invest in win 7 64 bit

badblackiroc

Posted 11:51 pm, 08/12/2010

The true answer is. windows xp 32 bit edition only addresses 3.25 gigs, it doesn't know any more addresses because of the 32 bit processor.thats why it only can write to the 3.2 gigs of addresses
like back when hard drives were getting bigger. windows would only see a little over 32 gigs.
they actually had a jumper on some old hard drives to limit to the 32 gigs. but same principal

islesurfer

Posted 9:10 pm, 08/03/2010

Rg, you are talking about a harddrive, the OP is talking about RAM

Ant Flo

Posted 2:41 pm, 07/30/2010

Technically, while what RG is true, if you paint a blue widget with red paint, it will be....red.

RadioGiant

Posted 09:27 am, 07/29/2010

Formatted, a drive holds less data. And they have to be formatted in order to work (they usually come from the factory formatted in FAT).

It's true for all drives. The computer I'm working on has a 1 terabyte drive. Formatted in NTFS, it's showing-up as 931 gigabytes. This is perfectly normal.

islesurfer

Posted 6:26 pm, 07/27/2010

With a 32 bit OS, that is all you will show.

Ant Flo

Posted 4:40 pm, 07/27/2010

Yes - Enjoy your evening.

That's all you'll get to show with the OS. Nope, no way around it.

RWilliams

Posted 4:36 pm, 07/27/2010

I updated my older Intel motherboard with a 946 chip set to 4 gig of memory. I have noticed that the machine is only recognizing 3.25 gig. I'm running XP Pro 32bit edition. Suggestions?