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Dell Dimension 8400 - Media Center 4GB RAM?? Jamie 11-22-2005
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Posted by Jamie on November 22, 2005, 9:00 pm
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 I had 2GB of RAM installed and recently put another 2 in. The BIOS on the
machine reports 4GB, windows shows 3GB. I found some articles about using a
/PAE switch and a /3GB switch in the boot.ini but neither have had any
effect. (I have tried each of these switches and both of them).

Is there a way to force Windows to see the 4GB or should I return 1GB and
scrap the project?
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Jamie
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Posted by Techdango on November 22, 2005, 10:33 pm
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 OK, first question is does the MB show you have 4GB installed?

You might have already seen this article -
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q291988/

Another crazy thing is that Windows will only see 4GB of memory period.
This includes the pagefile. If the MB does see your 4GB, try disabling your
pagefile temporarily, reboot and see if XP shows all of your RAM.

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Ryan


"Jamie" wrote:

> I had 2GB of RAM installed and recently put another 2 in. The BIOS on the
> machine reports 4GB, windows shows 3GB. I found some articles about using a
> /PAE switch and a /3GB switch in the boot.ini but neither have had any
> effect. (I have tried each of these switches and both of them).
>
> Is there a way to force Windows to see the 4GB or should I return 1GB and
> scrap the project?
> --
> Jamie
> MCP, Net+, A+

Posted by JW on November 22, 2005, 10:41 pm
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Why did you install 4GB of Ram. MS only reccomends 512MB for MCE if you are
using an HDTV tuner which is probably the largest memory consumer in MCE.
Is the reason you want more RAM becaue you are doing video editing or
conversion of high resolution video files?

>I had 2GB of RAM installed and recently put another 2 in. The BIOS on the
> machine reports 4GB, windows shows 3GB. I found some articles about using
> a
> /PAE switch and a /3GB switch in the boot.ini but neither have had any
> effect. (I have tried each of these switches and both of them).
>
> Is there a way to force Windows to see the 4GB or should I return 1GB and
> scrap the project?
> --
> Jamie
> MCP, Net+, A+



Posted by Scottyooo on November 22, 2005, 11:22 pm
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"Jamie" wrote:

> I had 2GB of RAM installed and recently put another 2 in. The BIOS on the
> machine reports 4GB, windows shows 3GB. I found some articles about using a
> /PAE switch and a /3GB switch in the boot.ini but neither have had any
> effect. (I have tried each of these switches and both of them).
>
> Is there a way to force Windows to see the 4GB or should I return 1GB and
> scrap the project?
> --
> Jamie
> MCP, Net+, A+





ive just had the same problem been running my dell xps 600 3.8 GHZ HT,
windows xp media center 2005 for intence memory gaming and running the sever
so i got another 2gigs of memory. and its still only showing 2gigs under my
computer properties but it is showing in the bios as 4 gigs. so my quesstion
is i know it doesnot show but is it still working as it should i was told my
computer can hold 8 gigs.we all know dell never answers a quesstion so can
some one help out?

thanks

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