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dimension 8400 memory upgrade help????????
hi guys
i am a computor novice. i have a dell dimension 8400 with xp proffesional, just went out of warranty. i upgraded recently from 1G to 3G with dell memory. no problem i wanted to bring it up to 4G. i pulled out the two 512 and replaced with 1g sticks from dell also. i have 1g sticks in all 4 slots. when i click on my computor properties it still shows 3G. it didnt show a memory added message like the first upgrade. it also has a new battery installed
when it boots i clicked f2 key , in memory line it shows 1g in all 4 slots. but not when when you click on my computor properties just 3G of ram.
do i need to get extended warranty or call dell support? do i need to update the bios? it is AO3. there is an upgrade to A04. i have never done a bios upgrade. is there any thing wrong?
can you please help me? i appreciate the help and thank you ahead of time
best regards phil
RobinBredin
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Posted February 6th, 2009 06:00
Hi lisfan, I would leave it, as it is. Though you wont see the 4GB because of the 32bit system, you will get the 3.25GBof ram.
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Posted February 6th, 2009 12:00
lisfan
You are welcome. :emotion-11:
Bev.
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Posted February 5th, 2009 20:00
lisfan
You have a XP 32bit system, this does not recognize 4gb of memory.
3gb± is all a 32bit system can address. Basically what it means is, while you can install 4gb of memory in the system, the reason it’s not recognized is mainly due to 32-bit processors & 32-bit applications on memory address limitations.
64-bit processors & operating systems will recognize beyond the 32-bit limitation.
See HERE
Bev.