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Computer how much ram
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irishwonkafan wrote:
Try http://www.memoryc.com. They’re based in Celbridge and they’re fast as well as having an online tool to find the correct memory for your PC. They do flash cards too.
Alan
Aha, thats the one……
ciaran wrote:
joe_elway wrote:
Sounds about right. 2GB was the normal max until recently. XP and Vista x86 (what you normally get) only support up to 2Gb RAM.
XP supports up to 3 Gig not 2.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778.aspx
Snafu by me – I’ve not been working with client OS’s in years . XP x86 (32bit) handles up to 4GB RAM. x64 handles 128GB. However, be sure the motherboard can handle it and that the BIOS will read it. There’s plenty of stories out there of people buying 4GB and only being able to use 3.2GB or thereabouts. It isn’t the OS that’s the problem, it’s the h/w.
MemoryC are dead cheap.
joe_elway wrote:
ciaran wrote:
joe_elway wrote:
Sounds about right. 2GB was the normal max until recently. XP and Vista x86 (what you normally get) only support up to 2Gb RAM.
XP supports up to 3 Gig not 2.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778.aspx
Snafu by me – I’ve not been working with client OS’s in years . XP x86 (32bit) handles up to 4GB RAM. x64 handles 128GB. However, be sure the motherboard can handle it and that the BIOS will read it. There’s plenty of stories out there of people buying 4GB and only being able to use 3.2GB or thereabouts. It isn’t the OS that’s the problem, it’s the h/w.
MemoryC are dead cheap.
A 32-bit OS can address 4Gigs – so theoretically XP can address 4 Gigs – and it does. However, it will do this one of two ways. It will split the memory up into 2 slices of 2 Gigs – one for the kernel and one for the apps. So in this mode, even if you have 4 GB, your applications can only use 2. By using a /3B switch (called 4 gig tuning), it now allocates 1GB to the Kernel and 3 GB to the applications. However, at no time will applications ever be able to address the 4GB. So if you want to make real use of it you need to go to XP64 or Vista.
It is not true to say its your mother board at fault (it could be – but unlikely on recent machines)
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