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I have new a ram of 4GB kingston so i plug it wit my old2gb RAM slot i should have up to 6GBs of RAM. However when i start windows it reporting 3.5GBs of RAM in it. However . setting mobo BIOS and it shows as 4GBs.
Rearranging the RAM sticks doesnt make any change. All the RAM speeds will be set to run at PC5300 because i want to overclock please can any body tell me what is wrong ? thank you.
6Gb ram, is not supported in a 32bit OS Perhaps you should try the 64bit flavor of XP or Vista. These will support over the 4Gb ceiling that is imposed on the 32bit OS's addressing range.
32bit windows will only ever show around 3.5Gb of ram. A 64bit operating system is required to use more than that.
As for your BIOS reporting only 4 gigs, its probably because a 6Gb setup isn't supported. Your motherboard manual should say what ram configurations are supported. with this OS can't even address the full 4Gb.
Windows splits the 4 GB of available memory address space into two separate 2 GB address spaces. One of the 2 GB address spaces is used by the Windows operating system, and the other 2 GB address space is used for user mode processes (applications).
check here http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;888137