hello
i just got a Samsung 300E4A series laptop with windows 7 starter installed. it came with just 2gig of ram.
i inserted a new two gig ram in the vacant ram slot to make it 4gig altogether.
After checking to see in system properties, i see 4.00GB (2.00 GB usable).
i've unchecked the maximum memory in the advanced menu of msconfig.
its all the same after restarting.
Please i need help with this. thanks in advance
Your graphics chip is using 2 GB of memory, nothing you can do about it with a laptop, I would say max out the memory but you only have 32 bit installed.
Post a snip of Resource Monitor sowing the memory tab.
Nothing is going to help that laptop, not with that CPU
But it should make a good Frisbee :)
Win 7 Starter is limited to 2GB of RAM by MS. If you want more RAM than that, you'll need to install a different version of Win 7 or install Win 8 or 10. See this chart from MS: Memory Limits for Windows and Windows Server Releases (Windows)
If you do the free Win 10 upgrade, you'll get upgraded from Win 7 Starter to full Win 10 Home 32-bit which can use 4GB of RAM.
wow! great. i just saw this now. I've actually installed win 10 pro. Although I'm yet to purchase the key. I guess i'll just do factory reset and then do the upgrade to win 10 Home. But then, after I installed win 10 Pro, i got 4.00GB (2.00 GB usable). Do you think win 10 home might give me the entire 4gig?
Hi,
As the image states Secure boot is unsupported so Fast start must be disabled
Fast Startup - Turn On or Off in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Tutorials
Use the command prompt method to disable hibernation with
powercfg -h off
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