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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.
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Windows Vista - by OmegaZero_Alpha - Jan 11, 2008, 03:05 AM
Windows Vista - by Duke - Jan 11, 2008, 03:42 AM
Windows Vista - by Kaylee - Jan 11, 2008, 04:33 AM
Windows Vista - by OmegaZero_Alpha - Jan 11, 2008, 05:38 AM
Windows Vista - by larz - Jan 11, 2008, 06:04 AM
Windows Vista - by OmegaZero_Alpha - Jan 11, 2008, 07:32 AM
Windows Vista - by Retribution - Jan 11, 2008, 09:39 AM
Windows Vista - by OmegaZero_Alpha - Jan 11, 2008, 09:53 AM
Windows Vista - by Drunken F00l - Jan 11, 2008, 01:32 PM
Windows Vista - by Kaylee - Jan 11, 2008, 06:17 PM
Windows Vista - by OmegaZero_Alpha - Jan 12, 2008, 04:21 PM
Windows Vista - by Retribution - Jan 12, 2008, 05:37 PM
Windows Vista - by OmegaZero_Alpha - Jan 12, 2008, 06:15 PM
Windows Vista - by Retribution - Jan 12, 2008, 08:37 PM
Windows Vista - by OmegaZero_Alpha - Jan 13, 2008, 12:35 AM
Windows Vista - by Drunken F00l - Jan 13, 2008, 01:57 AM
Windows Vista - by OmegaZero_Alpha - Jan 13, 2008, 02:08 AM
Windows Vista - by Retribution - Jan 13, 2008, 04:16 PM
Windows Vista - by larz - Jan 14, 2008, 03:32 PM
Windows Vista - by OmegaZero_Alpha - Jan 14, 2008, 03:50 PM
Windows Vista - by larz - Jan 14, 2008, 07:03 PM
Windows Vista - by OmegaZero_Alpha - Jan 15, 2008, 01:14 AM
Windows Vista - by larz - Jan 15, 2008, 11:53 AM
Windows Vista - by Retribution - Jan 15, 2008, 02:52 PM
Windows Vista - by OmegaZero_Alpha - Jan 15, 2008, 08:29 PM
Windows Vista - by Drunken F00l - Jan 15, 2008, 09:04 PM
Windows Vista - by Retribution - Jan 16, 2008, 02:38 AM
Windows Vista - by OmegaZero_Alpha - Jan 16, 2008, 09:33 AM
Windows Vista - by Drunken F00l - Jan 16, 2008, 11:51 AM
Windows Vista - by OmegaZero_Alpha - Jan 16, 2008, 09:18 PM
Windows Vista - by larz - Jan 16, 2008, 09:36 PM
Windows Vista - by Retribution - Jan 16, 2008, 09:40 PM
Windows Vista - by OmegaZero_Alpha - Jan 16, 2008, 10:43 PM
Windows Vista - by Drunken F00l - Jan 17, 2008, 01:20 AM
Windows Vista - by OmegaZero_Alpha - Jan 17, 2008, 03:16 AM
Windows Vista - by Retribution - Jan 17, 2008, 05:13 AM
Windows Vista - by OmegaZero_Alpha - Jan 17, 2008, 05:17 AM
Windows Vista - by Drunken F00l - Jan 17, 2008, 12:10 PM
Windows Vista - by OmegaZero_Alpha - Jan 18, 2008, 12:54 AM
Windows Vista - by Drunken F00l - Jan 18, 2008, 01:16 AM
Windows Vista - by OmegaZero_Alpha - Jan 18, 2008, 01:45 AM
Windows Vista - by Drunken F00l - Jan 18, 2008, 02:06 AM
Windows Vista - by OmegaZero_Alpha - Jan 18, 2008, 04:29 AM
Windows Vista - by Drunken F00l - Jan 18, 2008, 02:12 PM
Windows Vista - by larz - Jan 18, 2008, 02:51 PM
Windows Vista - by Retribution - Jan 18, 2008, 04:33 PM
Windows Vista - by OmegaZero_Alpha - Jan 18, 2008, 08:49 PM
Windows Vista - by Drunken F00l - Jan 19, 2008, 01:00 AM
Windows Vista - by OmegaZero_Alpha - Jan 19, 2008, 01:14 AM
Windows Vista - by OmegaZero_Alpha - Jan 20, 2008, 04:53 AM
Windows Vista - by larz - Jan 20, 2008, 01:31 PM
Windows Vista - by Drunken F00l - Jan 21, 2008, 01:50 AM
Windows Vista - by OmegaZero_Alpha - Jan 21, 2008, 03:48 AM

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