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SOLVED: Windows 7 64 bit RAM issue?
Heres my story:
I upgraded from W7 32 (7000) to W7 32 (7057). So I was using 7057 for little bit... Then I bought 2GB of RAM (Making 4GB total) and a new video card (4670 1GB DDR3 ) I knew that 32 bit can't recognize 4GB of RAM, so I decided to give 64 bit a whirl.
I formatted my target HDD (a Seagate 120GB IDE) and then installed it without a problem. I go to my system specs and it says under RAM:
4.00GB (3.12GB usable)
So this made me mad...
I found out my BIOS was out of date, becuase when I booted, it said 3200MB of RAM, when my motherboard can have a max of 4GB.
SOOO... I updated my BIOS and now when I boot it says 4096MB, YAY!
I go into Windows all excited, and it says:
4.00GB (2.87GB usable)
Now I'm REALLY mad...
How does it go down? Does anyone know whats wrong or does anyone else have this problem?
I've reached a dead end...
SPECS:
Intel Pentium D 3.00Ghz
Abit IL9 Pro
4GB OCZ Platinum DDR2 RAM 800mhz
HIS HD Radeon 4670 IceQ 1GB DDR3
Hitachi SATA HDD 80GB (Windows XP 32 bit)
Seagate IDE HDD 120GB (Windows 7 64 bit build 7057)
Seagate IDE HDD 160GB (Mac OS X 10.5.6)
I think I'm missing something... oh well
Last edited by Topper59; 24 Mar 2009 at 15:51.