I bought a Dell XPS 710 recently and I bought it with 2GB RAM. I decided to upgrade it and so I bought another 2GB RAM and added 1GB from my old XPS 600. When I run the setup from booting the screen clearly says I have 5GB installed. However when in windows VISTA running dxdiag I get told I only have 3GB running. Why is this when everything has been installed properly. Any advice welcome.
2007-11-22 06:55:46 · 4 answers · asked by Bailey P 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
In reply to the humble one, yes I checked if you didn't know it's pretty much a top spec machine and can take 8GB
2007-11-22 07:46:44 · update #1
Windows Vista 32bit can only address 3GB-3.75GB of memory depending on the video card installed. It's a limitation of the Operating System. With Windows OS's, you can't get around this in any other way but replacing the OS with a 64bit version. Sorry.
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2007-11-22 06:59:46 · answer #1 · answered by radsystemzjason 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Before installing all that RAM, did you check the specifications of your PC to determine how much RAM it could accommodate?
For example, my Toshiba clearly states that it will run up to 2gb RAM.
2007-11-22 07:22:42 · answer #2 · answered by TheHumbleOne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vista 32bit recognizes a maximum of 3.5gb RAM. Really 2 - 3 is all you need. More DDR does NOT endlessly mean more performance. So don't waste your cash.
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