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#1 User is offline   Daedlus 

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  Posted 29 April 2007 - 11:03 PM

I recently installed 4GB of memory into my system, and in the bios, it recognizes that there is 4096MB installed, however it says that only 3328MB is usable.

System Specs are:

AMD Athlon x2 64 4600
Asus M32R-MVP
2 Seagate 150GB SATA drives in Raid 0
4GB Kingston pc 4200 in dual channel
ATI x1600
SB Live
Pioneer DVR-111D
Enermax 420 watt Power Supply

Not that it matters, but I am running Windows Vista Business edition.

I have attached a screen shot from the BIOS.

Any Ideas why there is a 700MB gap?

*edit - I have the current Bios update and the motherboard supports up to 8GB

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#2 User is offline   jcarle 

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Posted 30 April 2007 - 12:36 AM

Please search the forums next time.

This has been answered here, here, here and here.

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Posted 30 April 2007 - 03:46 PM

you need a 64bit Windows.

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Posted 30 April 2007 - 08:28 PM

View Postripken204, on Apr 30 2007, 05:46 PM, said:

you need a 64bit Windows.

That will not fix hardware issues. 64 bit Windows is not the miracle solution.

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