4 gigs, only registering 3-gigs in XP Pro

TinyTim · Post by **TinyTim** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 9:10 pm

Ok, so I put this system together for the wifey tonight (actually it is what I am posting from now and I have to say, this system simply flies!!!)

ANTEC|SONATAII RT
MB ASUS A8N-SLI NF4SLI 939
SAPPHIRE X800 PRO 256M 600 OEM
CPU AMD 64 |3800+ ATHLON X2 939P RT
4 GB CORSAIR TWINX2048-3200C2PRO
HD 36GB|WD 10K RPM WD360GD 8MB OEM
2 HD 250GB|WD 7200 WD2500JS SATA2%
MS WINDOWS XP PRO
LCDTV VWSNC|27" 8ms N2750w

First, have to say that the 27" viewsonic looks awesome!

I do have one question though, I installed the 4gigs of ram, the bios recognizes 4 gigs installed, however the OS only sees 3 gigs...any ideas?

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 11:31 pm

if the bios see's it thats a start.. check a program called cpu-z and see what it shows. the 64bit XP I think updates this increase of ram to show.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:46 am

Since 4 GB is the limit you may have to turn off the pagefile for windows to see it.

Google seems to agree, I can't find another reason why u'd be short an entire GB.

LukeMan · Post by **LukeMan** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:12 am

It's a limit in Windows (32) check this thread out Bink's Forum

Come on over to the "dark side" (WinX64) some time........

TLM

TinyTim · Post by **TinyTim** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 8:18 am

YARDofSTUF wrote:Since 4 GB is the limit you may have to turn off the pagefile for windows to see it.

Google seems to agree, I can't find another reason why u'd be short an entire GB.

That seems to be all I could come up with as well. I will try this evening to disable PF and see what happens.

Not sure how the Pentium D would have stacked up against the AMD x64, but man does this thing fly (of course I am used to a AMD XP 2000+)

TinyTim · Post by **TinyTim** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 8:19 am

LukeMan wrote:It's a limit in Windows (32) check this thread out Bink's Forum

Come on over to the "dark side" (WinX64) some time........

TLM

I might try that if Newegg will not take back the version of WinX64 that I purchased when ordering the system (meant to order Win XP Pro...yep was in a hurry and not paying attention).

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 9:01 am

tdog9988 wrote:That seems to be all I could come up with as well. I will try this evening to disable PF and see what happens.

Not sure how the Pentium D would have stacked up against the AMD x64, but man does this thing fly (of course I am used to a AMD XP 2000+)

Pentium D VS the AMD X2 you mean,their are single core AMD x64 chips as well.

Should deffinately blow the doors off that 2000+ lol