On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:34:09 +0800, ADO. Inconnu wrote:
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> I bought my SonyVaio Notebook Computer (VGN-SZ57N, with 1GB of Ram) coming
> with an Vista Business installed, I can't work with its poor performance, so
> I bought / installed another new 4GB(2x2GB) Ram to replace the original 1GB
> of Ram(Product Spec. told that it support 4GB of Ram). As a result I
> realized both the Bios and Vista the OS seeing only 3GB(actually 3070MB)
> Physical Memory. I google around and I heard about Hardware's lacking of
> remapping feature and Software's 32 bit OS limitation issues, but I hope I
> still can hear someone here told me that this is an deadend for getting my
> current computer to see and work with 4GB of Ram.
Not a 'dead end' at all - only with MS. Linux 32 bit systems will
recongize up to 64gb.
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>
> Please let me know whether this is a motherboard limitation or this is a
> matter of 32bit versions of Windows, any explaination... Thanks so much for
> your kindly help, I just felt sick of keeping search on this topic and I
> think I can accept all of this if this is a matter of time (People told me
> SP1 could solve all of this) or money (They told me I should upgrade to
> 64bit Vista Ultimate to work 4GB Ram). Hey, anyway thanks again, have a nice
> day. 
>
> A.