i3adi3oyMike

Ok this is weird. I have read up on how xp 32bit cant utilize more then 4gb of ram. So here is my situation. This week I purchased 4-1GB sticks of pc5400 ddr2 ocz ram. I also bought a BFG Geforce 8800GT OC 512BM Pci-express card. Now where my problem is is that before I installed either of these things I had 2-1gb sticks and 2-512mb sticks of ram and it showed 3GB of ram for my system. I also had an ATI Radeon x800xt 256mb pci-express card.
So I installed the new video card and the ram and opened up My Computer and clicked on properties and at bottom it says 2.25GB of ram. Odd? Well I checked my bios and it shows 4GB of ram and I used CPU-z and it shows 4GB of ram. So I got to messing around after work today and kept changing out the configurations of ram anywhere from 3GB - 4GB and it would still show under properties that I had 2.25gb. So I decided just to see if it would make a difference and I took out my new video card and reinstalled my 256mb one, still having 4GB of ram in the computer and then the properties would show 3GB of ram.
Like I said I have read about the memory issue with 32bit xp but how would upgrading a video card remove 750MB of ram. I went from 256 to 512...this is very strange how my video card would do this. Any ideas?

computeruler

mabye xp is just saying you do but you still migh be able to use all of the ram anyways

Cromewell

The additional video RAM takes a bit but there's other addressing that is done as well. ~750MB seems like a bit much but it is what it is. You've removed or disabled the ATi driver right? I don't think it would stay around but I guess you never know.

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