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Old Jun 28th, 08, 4:16 AM
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A few months back I upgraded the ram in my laptop from 1gb to 4gb. I bought two 2x 2gb sticks. Whenever I go to My Computer on vista it says I only have 2.25 GB of ram. Does anyone know why it does this? Does this really mean I only have 2.25 and I'm not getting my true 4gb out of my laptop?



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Old Jun 28th, 08, 3:37 PM
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What kind of laptop do you have? Your laptop may not support 4GB of ram and 2.25GB may be the max it supports.



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Old Jun 28th, 08, 3:39 PM
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I own an Acer Aspire 5100-5674 It says on my laptop. When I was purchasing RAM it told me it maxed out at 4gb and could handle 2X2gb stick.



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Old Jun 28th, 08, 4:21 PM
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Yeah most of the Acer line can handle 4GB, so I don't know what your issue is. Have you run memtest to see if you get any errors?



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Hmm I downloaded the program and ran it and it didnt do anything



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Have you installed SP1?



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Is that Vista 32-bit or 64-bit?

32-bit can't handle 4GB worth of RAM, IIRC.

Just like WinXP 32-bit.



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Its 32bit. And I am installing SP1 right now.



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