32-Bit Vista On 4GB RAM?

Mr.Farva

Mr.Farva

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Here is my setup,

ASUS P5N-E SLI (Motherboard)
Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66GHZ
Sapphire Toxic HP4870 512MB (Graphics Card)
OCZ DDR2 4GB PC6400 (RAM) I can only run 3GB...
Seagate Sata/300 320GB/16MB Cache (HDD)
Thermaltake Pure Power 600W (Powersupply)
32-Bit Vista :(


Ok so here's my problem. I have 4GB of RAM and I cannot get it to run on 4GB. Right before I got my new Graphics Card I tried to 4th RAM stick again and It started and ran fine. It only showed up as 3GB of RAM in Windows, but on startup it said 4GB of RAM. Now that I installed my new graphics card, my computer would startup on a Blackscreen. I took out the 4th stock and it started right up. Im a Noob at modding computers and stuff so please help me out.
 
32 bit Vista will only recognize up to 3.25gb of usable memory. But your situation should be doable, most likely either a bad stick, bad memory slot or you need to enable memory remapping in bios.
 
Yes but cant you still put 4gb of ram? It's a black screen when I have all four 1GB ram sticks in it.
 
i too have 4 GB RAM installed onmy HP laptop, running Vista Ultimate 32.

It shows 2.75 GB as total physical memory. I think the rest is shared by my video card (ATI Radeon HD3200).

My BIOS shows full 4 GB RAM, but the Windows shows only 2.75 GB.

BIOS is Locked (as in most laptops), so i cant do anything except change the booting device option.

Anyway to increase my available RAM??? I think it must give atleast 3.25 GB.
 
How much memory does your onboard video use? Possible 512mb which would reduce you down to 2.75 or so.
 
no, whatever the onboard memory uses will reduce RAM recognized down from 4gb. if you have no vram in yoursystem and no gfx sharing with your ram then windows will recognize 4gigs of RAM
 
My laptop hp pavilion here on the screen shot I just upgrade from 2gb to 4gb and it recognize it.
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And my desktop was upgraded from 4gb to 8gb and it too recognized.
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Like someone said earlier maybe ur bad stick or slot.
 
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