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It appears that your motherboard has 1 memory socket which has a maximum capacity of 2 GB RAM. A 64 bit OS is probably not a good idea. An SSD is a viable option.
This is where i got the information from:
https://downloadmirror.intel.com/159...04_English.pdf
Indeed, it says 2GB max. I wonder whether that is an older board because such a small RAM is unusual nowadays.
2GB max RAM isn't that unusual. I had an early Acer netbook with a max RAM capacity of 1.5GB! It had 512MB soldered onto the mobo and 1 memory slot that could accept up to a 1GB stick for a max of 1.5GB.
Not long ago, 2GB RAM was common., ASUS was selling a netbook with 2GB RAM; it ran Windows 32-bit.
Any OS running on PC hardware has the problem that memory mapped hardware must share the physical address space with RAM. There must be some way to prevent RAM addresses and memory mapped hardware addresses from overlapping. One way to do this is to limit RAM to 2 GB. It makes the design simpler. Not an ideal solution but on low end hardware it was not an unreasonable compromise.
Having only 1 memory socket is a cost saving measure. If it is a 4 GB module a significant portion of it will be wasted on a 32 bit OS and you have the address space overlap problem. The solution, limit it to 2 GB.
The only thing you can do is to stay away from restrictive hardware like that. Who wants to live with 2GB of RAM. Can't even run a decent virtual machine. I sometimes run 2 or 3 of those in parallel.
... And I once ran a successful Vista network using Home premium systems running on 1GB ram, with a 2GB home premium "Server"
Peoples needs and resources are not always the same
I once loaded windows 7 ultimate onto a 1GB netbook and it ran just as well or slightly better than the XP it came with