Vista - Vista Home Premium 32bit 4 gig Ram problem

Hi all

Recently I had a problem with my RAID and had to wipe every thing now I have everything installed, but I have 4 sticks of Ram (4x1 sticks) but my computer details display that I only have 2gig. I heard there is a check box I need to tick to use maximum memory but to be honest I haven't a clue where to start looking as I lack knowledge in this kind of thing.

Any help is welcome.

Thanks

Vost

Vostman wrote:==================================
Maybe the following articles will offer some ideas:

(929605) The system memory that is reported
in the System Information dialog box in Windows
Vista is less than you expect if 4 GB of RAM is installed
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605/en-us

(964003) Windows Vista SP1 will report
4 GB of system memory (RAM) on systems
that have 4 GB of memory installed
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946003/

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John Inzer

Vostman <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote:
Assuming you have 32-bit Vista, you have a 32-bit (4GB) address space.
Some of that space must be used to access video RAM, BIOS, etc. What's
left over is used for system RAM, which means you will not be able to
use a full 4GB of RAM on a 32-bit machine (see
http://members.cox.net/slatteryt/RAM.html).

The usual result is 3.1 GB or so being used. 2GB sounds quite low, but
you should figure out how much RAM is on your video card, some of the
new ones have a TON of memory onboard.

Vista SP1 always reports the amount of RAM installed, not the amount
used. So it will tell you about your 4GB, and never let on that it
can't use all of it.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(Shell/User)
Slattery_T@xxxxxx
http://members.cox.net/slatteryt

now vista with sp1 can help for you dude

even though u use vista sp1 shown u 4gb in the properties but f u use dxdiag.exe u currently running 3.5gb dude,so how will u do to force it to read all the ram in dxdiag

ven though u use vista sp1 shown u 4gb in the properties but f u use dxdiag.exe u currently running 3.5gb dude,so how will u do to force it to read all the ram in dxdiag

ven though u use vista sp1 shown u 4gb in the properties but f u use dxdiag.exe u currently running 3.5gb dude,so how will u do to force it to read all the ram in dxdiag

"Vostman" wrote:
YOU MUST run 64bit Operation system If you doubt me then please call
microsoft they will explain 32bit can only support 3 GB of ram

"Tim Slattery" wrote:
32BIT will ONLY support 3GB of ram 64BIT will support up to 16GB

Styme wrote:
Wrong. 32b Windows OSs will support a tad over 3GB; maybe 3.1, maybe
3.3, depends on your hardware. The arithmetic is 4GB minus some that
is used for accessing the VGA and a few other pieces of I/O gear.
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Cheers, Bob