The screenshot itself provides a fairly obvious hint why this is happening: 32-bit Operating System. But that’s not what I saw in System Information: I installed the memory in my work box, which brings it up to 4 gigabytes of RAM– 4,096 megabytes in total.
Dude, Where’s My 4 Gigabytes of RAM?ĭue to fallout from a recent computer catastrophe at work, I had the opportunity to salvage 2 GB of memory.
Here is a good semi-technical article summing up the basics of what’s going on behind the scenes, which should help give you a clear idea of the situation.Īrticle is from CODING HORROR programming and human factors by Jeff Atwood - Content (c) 2007 Jeff Atwood. In other words, the better the system you have, such as a higher end video card with a large amount of memory on-board, the less memory you’ll have access to from the 4GB. sound card, video card, Ethernet, modem, etc.) are stored within Windows. Is there something wrong with the memory or my machine?Ī: There is nothing wrong with the memory or the machine itself – 32-bit operating systems have a limit of 4GB, but that also includes where attached devices (e.g. Q: My system says the maximum is 4GB, so I’ve installed it BUT not all 4GB are showing up in Windows.
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