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| Technophiliacs & Technophiles The Technophiliacs forum is for discussing any and all forms of tech and other types of social backwardness. Including discussions of strange home-brewed hardware technology. Where to get good tools. How to make fiberglass molds. Computer hardware and software technolgy, including operating systems, applications, networking, hardware, CPU's, disk drives, and other geeky things. Viruses and Artificial Life discussions. End user tools discussions and support issues. Gating the Internet with other nets. |
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#1
 2008-12-29, 21:32 |
bKiZ 
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 Ram!
so im running a 32 bit vista and i recently installed 2 2gb ram chips for 4 gb..but it only shows as 3.5 gb i know not to expect all of it to be detected but i also left in my two 520 mb ones cuz i have nowhere else to put them at the moment..isnt there a way to squeeze in a bit more? :]
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#2
2008-12-29, 21:35 |
klockwork
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Re: Ram!
Did you check the model to make sure it could Evan support all that ram? cause that could be a problem
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#3
2008-12-29, 21:51 |
soul flayer
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Re: Ram!
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Originally Posted by bKiZ
so im running a 32 bit vista and i recently installed 2 2gb ram chips for 4 gb..but it only shows as 3.5 gb i know not to expect all of it to be detected but i also left in my two 520 mb ones cuz i have nowhere else to put them at the moment..isnt there a way to squeeze in a bit more? :]
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Your problem is in bold. You should also remove those two 512 sticks you have. |
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#4
2008-12-29, 21:56 |
klockwork
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Re: Ram!
http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-32-bit-vista-memory-limits/
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#5
2008-12-30, 03:56 |
bKiZ
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Re: Ram!
ahh thanks guys i was just curious cuz when i had 2 gb it was like 1.99 gb okay i understand :D
lol actually turns out i get more RAM than most ppl..but anyways i heard microsoft will send you a 64 bit version of vista if you bought the 32 bit here..
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/compare-editions/64-bit.aspx
for the cost of shipping!
so im gonna go ahead and get that and ill leave in my extra 1 gb for 5 gb's of ram :D
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