problem with vista memory

Even Ander the limitation of a 32 bit system I should still see 3.5 GB of RAM
but I can only see 2 GB of RAM.
please help me find a way to use at list the 3.5 GB RAM that I am suppose to
be able to use with vista 32 bit.


"JW" wrote:

> There is really nothing you can do Vista 32 bit has to reserve memory
> address space for controllers that have onboard memory see the following
> link:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605/en-us
>
>
> "vered" <vered@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E957F00E-B7D5-4876-8280-2CC0AE64E4E9@microsoft.com...

> >I have Windows Vista ultimate 32-bit Edition, and it says it supports 4GB
> > of RAM. I have only 4GB installed, and yet the computer says I only have
> > 2GB. On the support page, there is an entry about why Vista may show less
> > RAM if all 4GB are installed, but why does it not recognize at list
> > 3.5GB.
> > My board is asus commando and I have enabled PAE and I have enabled memory
> > remapping what else do I need to do?
> >

>

Does your BIOS say you have 4GB installed?
What kind and number of memory Dimms do you have?
If you are using DDR2 dimms are they a matched pair or matched pairs?
Is your BIOS up to date.
"vered" <vered@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E957F00E-B7D5-4876-8280-2CC0AE64E4E9@microsoft.com...

>I have Windows Vista ultimate 32-bit Edition, and it says it supports 4GB
> of RAM. I have only 4GB installed, and yet the computer says I only have
> 2GB. On the support page, there is an entry about why Vista may show less
> RAM if all 4GB are installed, but why does it not recognize at list
> 3.5GB.
> My board is asus commando and I have enabled PAE and I have enabled memory
> remapping what else do I need to do?
>

In message <263CA95E-328C-4257-84D1-2E89774BB7B0@microsoft.com> vered
<vered@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Even Ander the limitation of a 32 bit system I should still see 3.5 GB of RAM
>but I can only see 2 GB of RAM.
>please help me find a way to use at list the 3.5 GB RAM that I am suppose to
>be able to use with vista 32 bit.

The 3.5GB RAM is a rough ballpark, and is highly dependant on system
configuration.

My motherboard wants around 550MB for itself (if my reading is correct,
I haven't yet tested), and each of my video cards take a full 512MB as
well, meaning that at most, I'll get ~2.5GB available.

I'll upgrade one of these days just to find out, x64 is on the roadmap
too once I can acquire the media.

--
If quitters never win, and winners never quit,
what fool came up with, "Quit while you're ahead"?

After I enabled memory remapping my bios recognized 4 GB of RAM
I am using 4 matching dimms that came in to 2 kits with the same model
And I have updated my bios
My graphics card only uses 254 MB
So I don’t see how am I losing 2 GB
When I check my parameters with Everest it recognizes 2 GB of memory
But it shows the 4 dimms each has 1 GB it also has a category called swap
space and it looks like its showing my memory correctly


"JW" wrote:

> Does your BIOS say you have 4GB installed?
> What kind and number of memory Dimms do you have?
> If you are using DDR2 dimms are they a matched pair or matched pairs?
> Is your BIOS up to date.
> "vered" <vered@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E957F00E-B7D5-4876-8280-2CC0AE64E4E9@microsoft.com...

> >I have Windows Vista ultimate 32-bit Edition, and it says it supports 4GB
> > of RAM. I have only 4GB installed, and yet the computer says I only have
> > 2GB. On the support page, there is an entry about why Vista may show less
> > RAM if all 4GB are installed, but why does it not recognize at list
> > 3.5GB.
> > My board is asus commando and I have enabled PAE and I have enabled memory
> > remapping what else do I need to do?
> >

>