RAM aint showing??

Jacky-Boy16 · 8 Jan 2008 at 15:25

Hey guys. About this time last year I bought this motherboard:

Asrock Conroe945G-DVI (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

with this RAM:

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-5300C4 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB5300DC)

I recieved exactly the same 2x1GB kit today and put it in, to boost it up to 4GB. For some strange reason, when I put one extra stick in, it says that I have 3GB, but when I put the final stick in, it claims that I only have 3.2GB as opposed to 4GB. Is this some fault of my motherboard?

Thanks in advance

vanandjuanunited · 8 Jan 2008 at 15:26

32 bit os by any chance?

Jacky-Boy16 · 8 Jan 2008 at 15:28

yep, I'm still on Windows XP pro

Cob · 8 Jan 2008 at 18:57

32bit operating systems will only give you access to ~3.25gb.

Jacky-Boy16 · 8 Jan 2008 at 19:42

Cool, thanks guys that makes alotta sense

bimmerboii · 11 Jan 2008 at 10:49

Cob said:
32bit operating systems will only give you access to ~3.25gb.

does this apply to vista as well? just got another 2gb ram for a total of 4gb for my system and it detects only 3.50gb ram

Emlyn_Dewar · 11 Jan 2008 at 11:03

Unless it's Vista 64bit then there is still the same limitation.