Jan 11, 2008, 01:32 PM
OmegaZero_Alpha Wrote:I still haven't figured out why my ram won't show up as 4 gigs, though. Every program sees it as 4gigs except for windowsXP and windowsVISTA... who see it as 2.5 gigs.
It's because you have a 32-bit OS. 32-bit means you have an addressing space of 4GB. However, some devices such as your video card share this addressing space. Therefore, the max amount of RAM you can have is lower than 4GB and typically in the 3.2-3.5GB range. I haven't seen it as low as 2.5GB before.