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I know that windows xp can only see no more than 4 GB of ram.
I have 8GB install on my XP and It only show that I have 3.25 in my system Properties
I try editing my boot.ini file and my page file but it stay the same but ...
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I know that windows xp can only see no more than 4 GB of ram.
I have 8GB install on my XP and It only show that I have 3.25 in my system Properties I try editing my boot.ini file and my page file but it stay the same but when i start my computer it said that it see all 8 GB of ram during the post can some one help me |
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Actually it's Windows 32Bit that can only see 3.25, you will need 64bit XP or 64bit Vista.
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thanks but you dont know any software that will let you pass the 3.25 max because i have xp 64 bit cd but i dont really want to format my drive
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There is no software. It's a matter of basic binary arithmetic. A 32-bit system cannot address that much RAM unless it doesn't address anything else for IO like HDDs and video cards.
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Hmm thank you so then what should i do with the other stick of ram i have in my computer. sell it?
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Do whatever, it is useless in a 32bit PC.
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Yea, like stated above, it's not possible to make a 32-bit OS access more than 4GB of RAM > 2^32 = 4,294,967,296 bytes = 4GB, that's why it's limited, but a 64-bit OS > 2^64 = 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes = 17,179,869,184 GB so about 17 billion GB is the maximum amount of RAM capable with a properly programed 64-bit OS, however currently (as far as I know) no OS goes past supporting about 128GB of RAM, but the majority of motherboards hit their limits at about 8GB, however the new X58 boards, I've seen a few support 24GB, but for that you would need sticks of RAM with 4GB on each.
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XP x64 is horrible. Vista x64 is a lot better and has very few incompatibilities.
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Yea, Vista 64 is much better than XP 64.
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