[imemine]

I have a dell 8300. Dell told me I could upgrade my 1gig memory to no more than 4 gig. I bought 4 - 1gig cards and installed them. When I look at the system information, it says 3.25 gig. I thought there was something wrong with one of the memory cards but I tried it without and it goes to 3. gig then I tried along with the 3 1 gig cards I put in an old 512 and it went back up to 3.25. I read that since I"m using winxp home edition it won't read more than 3 gig. Is that true and is there anything I can do to fix it. (I don't want to upgrade to pro). My other question is. is the 4 gig in there wasted (should I remove 1 gig and only have 3 gig) or is the the other .75 gig being used at all.

Thank you in advance

[Megabite]

Yes it will not see all the 4 gig......I personally would just leave the 4 gig in

[imemine]

Thank you. I'll do as you suggest. :-)

thanks for the quick response. NOw I can close up the computer.

M

[flavallee]

imemine:

The 32-bit version of XP and Vista doesn't recognize and use much more than 3 GB, which is why your computer displays 3.25 GB.

The 64-bit version of XP and Vista does recognize and use 4 GB or more.

You're fine with leaving 4 GB in your computer.

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