4GB of RAM showing up as 776MB

hey i just finished building my computer, and it has a 2.80 ghz dual processor and 4gbh of ram, but in the system specifications it comes up as 776 mb of ram, but before that it was 2.50 gb so i thought that was normal coz im running xp, and it does show up as 4gb when i look in the bios setup, does anyone know whats goin on, or if this will affect my computer

You using 32bit?

You using 32bit?

clyde46

need 64bit OS to get the full potential of having 4Gbs of rameddy96_1

thats not true. 4gb is 4gb no matter what the memory bandwith of the OS is. thats an old rumor. 32bit can recognize more than 4gb. 64bit just utilizes the memory in a better way, but also takes up a it more RAM aswell. only a little though. check how much memory ur GPU is sharing with your RAM. there are rare cases where windows thinks it has less Ram due to memory sharing. check ur system information & see whats messing you up. if u have vista or 7 just type system information. choose the first category and report back

[QUOTE="eddy96_1"]need 64bit OS to get the full potential of having 4Gbs of rampainguy1

thats not true. 4gb is 4gb no matter what the memory bandwith of the OS is. thats an old rumor. 32bit can recognize more than 4gb. 64bit just utilizes the memory in a better way, but also takes up a it more RAM aswell. only a little though. check how much memory ur GPU is sharing with your RAM. there are rare cases where windows thinks it has less Ram due to memory sharing. check ur system information & see whats messing you up. if u have vista or 7 just type system information. choose the first category and report back

[QUOTE="eddy96_1"]need 64bit OS to get the full potential of having 4Gbs of rampainguy1

thats not true. 4gb is 4gb no matter what the memory bandwith of the OS is. thats an old rumor. 32bit can recognize more than 4gb. 64bit just utilizes the memory in a better way, but also takes up a it more RAM aswell. only a little though. check how much memory ur GPU is sharing with your RAM. there are rare cases where windows thinks it has less Ram due to memory sharing. check ur system information & see whats messing you up. if u have vista or 7 just type system information. choose the first category and report back

[QUOTE="eddy96_1"]need 64bit OS to get the full potential of having 4Gbs of rampainguy1

thats not true. 4gb is 4gb no matter what the memory bandwith of the OS is. thats an old rumor. 32bit can recognize more than 4gb. 64bit just utilizes the memory in a better way, but also takes up a it more RAM aswell. only a little though. check how much memory ur GPU is sharing with your RAM. there are rare cases where windows thinks it has less Ram due to memory sharing. check ur system information & see whats messing you up. if u have vista or 7 just type system information. choose the first category and report back

Yep, I have Vista 32bit and mine shows 3gb right now. and when I had 4gigs on it did show 4gb.... maybe he needs to check XP updates, I dont know.

[QUOTE="painguy1"]

[QUOTE="eddy96_1"]need 64bit OS to get the full potential of having 4Gbs of ramDogswithguns

thats not true. 4gb is 4gb no matter what the memory bandwith of the OS is. thats an old rumor. 32bit can recognize more than 4gb. 64bit just utilizes the memory in a better way, but also takes up a it more RAM aswell. only a little though. check how much memory ur GPU is sharing with your RAM. there are rare cases where windows thinks it has less Ram due to memory sharing. check ur system information & see whats messing you up. if u have vista or 7 just type system information. choose the first category and report back

Yep, I have Vista 32bit and mine shows 3gb right now. and when I had 4gigs on it did show 4gb.... maybe he needs to check XP updates, I dont know.

[QUOTE="Dogswithguns"]

[QUOTE="painguy1"]

thats not true. 4gb is 4gb no matter what the memory bandwith of the OS is. thats an old rumor. 32bit can recognize more than 4gb. 64bit just utilizes the memory in a better way, but also takes up a it more RAM aswell. only a little though. check how much memory ur GPU is sharing with your RAM. there are rare cases where windows thinks it has less Ram due to memory sharing. check ur system information & see whats messing you up. if u have vista or 7 just type system information. choose the first category and report back

opamando

Yep, I have Vista 32bit and mine shows 3gb right now. and when I had 4gigs on it did show 4gb.... maybe he needs to check XP updates, I dont know.