[Vista Business] Not recognize 4GB Ram - SonyVaio VGN-SZ57N/C + Vista Business

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.

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.

Asked and answered elsewhere.

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"ADO. Inconnu" <adoinconnu@gmail.com> wrote in message
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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.
>
> 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.

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:18:58 -0500, "Richard G. Harper" <rgharper@email.com> wrote:

>Asked and answered elsewhere.

That's a big help. Did you mean for us to try www.elsewhere.com for help?

I have the same problem. Does anyone here have a real answer?

Herman

Hi,

Not to be rude, but this has been explained so many times it is nauseating.
Please search this and other Vista groups before asking why:
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q...=2007&safe=off

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"Herman Klump" <hklumpe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:18:58 -0500, "Richard G. Harper"
> <rgharper@email.com> wrote:
>

>
> That's a big help. Did you mean for us to try www.elsewhere.com for help?
>
> I have the same problem. Does anyone here have a real answer?
>
> Herman

I have a real answer for you since you only posted your question in one
single newsgroup. No 32-bit version of Windows will support 4gb of RAM,
this is a design limitation inherent in all 32-bit Windows versions. A
64-bit version of Windows is necessary to overcome the limit.

The other gentleman posted the same question in several newsgroups, which is
rude and increases the workload for those who are volunteering their time to
help out here, thus the reply to him.

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"Herman Klump" <hklumpe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:18:58 -0500, "Richard G. Harper"
> <rgharper@email.com> wrote:
>

>
> That's a big help. Did you mean for us to try www.elsewhere.com for help?
>
> I have the same problem. Does anyone here have a real answer?
>
> Herman

In message <9BC65D5D-22F3-44DF-85B8-B0CB7EE8401B@microsoft.com> "Richard
G. Harper" <rgharper@email.com> wrote:

>No 32-bit version of Windows will support 4gb of RAM,

*cough*Server 2003*cough*

This has been "covered" numerous times - Vista 32 bit does support 4 gig
RAM - it resrves "approximately" the "last" gig for specific resources such
as video cards.

Default Virtual Memory setting is 1.5 times installed RAM - checking Virtual
Memory will show a default setting of 6 gigs when 4 gig RAM is installed.


"DevilsPGD" <spam_narf_spam@crazyhat.net> wrote in message
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> In message <9BC65D5D-22F3-44DF-85B8-B0CB7EE8401B@microsoft.com> "Richard
> G. Harper" <rgharper@email.com> wrote:
>

>
> *cough*Server 2003*cough*

(Fixed topposting)

In message <#PLxhb7LIHA.1168@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl> "AJR"
<ajrjdr@comcast.net> wrote:

>"DevilsPGD" <spam_narf_spam@crazyhat.net> wrote in message
>news:ldtjk39rrr2r7l18fts24htfn7uu3auukf@4ax.com.. .

>
>This has been "covered" numerous times - Vista 32 bit does support 4 gig
>RAM - it resrves "approximately" the "last" gig for specific resources such
>as video cards.

It supports a 4GB address space, but Vista cannot use 4GB of RAM due to
the address space reservations inherent to the x86 platform.

On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:59:46 -0500, "AJR" <ajrjdr@comcast.net> wrote:

> This has been "covered" numerous times - Vista 32 bit does support 4 gig
> RAM - it resrves "approximately" the "last" gig for specific resources such
> as video cards.

Sorry, this is not accurate. It uses " 'approximately' the 'last' gig"
of the 4GB *address space*, not of RAM. The problem is that that last
GB of address space is therefore not available to map RAM to.

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