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I increased my memory from 4GB to 6GB, the systen Intel DG965WH sees 6GB
total memory, but windows only sees 3.24GB. Why????, and how I can correct
it????
 
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I increased my memory from 4GB to 6GB, the systen Intel DG965WH sees 6GB
total memory, but windows only sees 3.24GB. Why????, and how I can correct
it????
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The simplest is to upgrade your hardware and OS to support 64 bit. With 32
bit you're at the limit with a bit under 4 GB of memory. Even if you make it
"see" more it really can't do anything with it AFAIK so the memory is wasted
unless you upgrade the OS and hardware. If you already have one that
supports 64 bit than you only need the other but you need both.

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I increased my memory from 4GB to 6GB, the systen Intel DG965WH sees 6GB
total memory, but windows only sees 3.24GB. Why????, and how I can correct
it????
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Are you running a 32-bit version of Windows? If so, you can't correct
it, other than running 64-bit Windows on a 64-bit processor.

All 32-bit client versions of Windows (not just Vista/XP) have a 4GB
address space. That's the theoretical upper limit beyond which you can
not go.

But you can't use the entire 4GB of address space. Even though you
have a 4GB address space, you can only use *around* 3.1GB of RAM.
That's because some of that space is used by hardware and is not
available to the operating system and applications. The amount you can
use varies, depending on what hardware you have installed, but can
range from as little as 2GB to as much as 3.5GB. It's usually around
3.1GB.

Note that the hardware is using the address *space*, not the actual
RAM itself. The rest of the RAM goes unused because there is no
address space to map it too.
 
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