Re: 4GB Ram shows as 2.87 Ram ???

All I can do is quote what I read about this. The most I have on any machine is 1 GB and that's on my Vista machine, so I have no personal experience. It does boggle my mind a bit that anyone would run WinXP without SP2.

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE

"R.L." <RL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Frank,
thanks for the response, however, I don't have SP2 i have SP1. Does it
matter? Is there a way to fix the problem??

Thanks,
R.L.

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" wrote:

"R.L." <R.L.@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have an intel 925x chipset motherboard and 4GB of RAM. so all four
slots have 1GB each. All the exact same configs. However, when I
right-click on my computer in Win XP and click properties, it only
shows 2.87GB of RAM instead of the 4GB. I looked in the BIOS section
when I started up, and it reports 4GB, 1024 in each slot - 4 slots.
I have no idea why Windows doesn't show the right RAM. It showed 2GB
when I upgraded from 1 to 2. Please help, this is bothering me, is
the computer even using the RAM I just bought??

The amount of RAM reported by the System Properties dialog box and
the System Information tool is less than you expect after you
install Windows XP Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888137 

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