ram usage??

Is there a way that i can use all of my 4gb of ram on a 32 bit windows 7 rc1?
Thanks
Ratman

If your PC supports it, enable Physical Address Extension (PAE) in BIOS.

Physical Address Extension - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

ratman said:

Is there a way that i can use all of my 4gb of ram on a 32 bit windows 7 rc1?
Thanks
Ratman

Hi and welcome to sevenforums

Usually mobo's will only use about 3.3 gigs of 4, unless as antman said your mobo supports pae. My dell supports 3.4 of 4 but even pushing it to the max I haven't been able to use all of it.Ken

Antman said:

If your PC supports it, enable Physical Address Extension (PAE) in BIOS.

Physical Address Extension - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

How could i find out if it does, and if so, how would i enable it? Thanks

ratman said:

Antman said:

If your PC supports it, enable Physical Address Extension (PAE) in BIOS.

Physical Address Extension - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

How would i do that?

Pae is a check box in bios. You would boot into bios (F-2?) and scroll thru till you find pae. It might say max memory,

Ken

HP pavilion Dv4 notebook pc

Provide a more complete model number.

Learning to peek while replying...

Or poke around as Ken seggests

Antman

I didnt even think to check the system specs. thanks for the heads up. I think I have given up being the specinator

zigzag3143 said:

Antman

I didnt even think to check the system specs. thanks for the heads up. I think I have given up being the specinator

Your respit has served you well.

I now have a collection of BIOS manuals and driver links - just no developed TOC or index.

i am quite new so i don't know much about this stuff yet. Can pae be bad for a computer in any way?