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rtmitchell
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February 2nd, 2007 03:00
Vista not recognizing added memory
Today I upgraded to Vista Ultimate (32-bit). No problems with the upgrade process itself. Lots of new drivers loaded. Got the RAID 0 set up without a problem, etc. Now here's the issue...I added additional RAM to my system to bring the total RAM to 4 GB (my original system configuration was 2 Gb RAM). In the BIOS it notes the total RAM to be 4 GB, but in Vista it says that my system has only 2 Gb installed. What could be the problem? I note that Vista Ultimate (32-bit) would support 4 Gb RAM. Any idea what the problem could be?
Here's my system:
Dell XPS 600
Pentium D 3.20 GHz processor
RAID 0 (2 X 250 Gb HDD)
secondary 250 Gb HDD
4 Gb RAM (4 X 1 GB DDR2 667Hz)
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 256Mb
BIOS A11
Dajad
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Posted February 2nd, 2007 05:00
There are at least a half dozen threads on the topic. Here's one of my original:
http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=xps_desk_upgrhdw&message.id=6685
And here's another MUCH LONGER thread (of the many) on the same topic:
http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=xps_desk_genhdw&message.id=11882&view=by_date_ascending&page=3
This is not a resolvable problem in XP. It's a problem with the nVidia system drivers and Windows. I had hoped Vista would solve it. You just showed it won't.
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...Dale