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#1 Yoshi25
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Hey guys, I own a Dell Vostro 200 and I bought the PC with 2gb equipped. It is one stick of 2g...not two 1g. Anyways, I decided to go out and buy another stick of 2g, and when I put it in my PC...my computer didn't read 4g. Instead it read 3.318g or 3318MB. Before I put the second stick of RAM in my PC, it read 2gigs perfectly fine. When I swap out the two sticks of RAM I have right now, it reads 2g for each one. But when I put them both together, it reads 3.3g. Anyone know what's wrong?
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#2 Bane_v2
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32-bit Windows cannot use all 4GB. The amount you're seeing looks normal for a 32-bit OS to me.
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32-bit Windows cannot use all 4GB. The amount you're seeing looks normal for a 32-bit OS to me.Bane_v2

Yep you need XP 64bit or Vista 64bit to use that much RAM.

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#4 Yoshi25
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[QUOTE="Bane_v2"]32-bit Windows cannot use all 4GB. The amount you're seeing looks normal for a 32-bit OS to me.musclesforcier

Yep you need XP 64bit or Vista 64bit to use that much RAM.

Which means a completely different version of XP than the one I have right now? Or do I just change a setting?

I'm guessing version.

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#5 mahmood667
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32 bit windows isnt powerfull enough to use all that ram u need bista or somthing that can handle the ram. i wouldnt recomend vista IT SUCKS!!