1. Vista 32 bit will support up to 4GB of RAM. Not sure where some of these people
are getting their info from. (scroll down to the middle of the page - it talks about
memory)
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...ons/64bit.mspx
2. There is a known issue with Vista (and Win2003) reporting 4GB of RAM.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929580/en-us
Do yourself a favor. Check the Microsoft Knowledgebase and the MS Vista
web pages first. Info you get in NGs is not always the most reliable.
"stryker719" <stryker719@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the replies guys.
>
> I thought that 2.3gb was odd as well. However, because I'm running two
> 768mb video cards, that might be causing the odd math.
>
> ghstbstr, I thought 32-bit Vista supported up to 4gbs, whereas 64-bit up to
> 128gbs(or some such number)?
>
> "ghstbstr" wrote:
>
>>
>> You have to a 64-bit windows OS for you to be able to use 4GB of memory in
>> your PC. A 32-bit windows OS only allows 2GB of memory, also if you leave
>> that 4GB of memory in your PC with the 32-bit windows OS will have some
>> errors and issues with that.
>>
>>
>> "stryker719" <stryker719@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:6AB96F89-B1FF-45BF-B599-9CA4945BCE75@microsoft.com...
>>
>> >I have 4gb of RAM installed on my system. During bootup, my BIOS
>> >identifies
>> > correctly that I have 4gb. My motherboard supports 4gb. I have the
>> > latest
>> > motherboard drivers installed, and they are compatible with Vista.
>> > However,
>> > Vista says I only have 2,301.75 MB. What's going on?
>>
>>