4GB memory in XP

rittah · 06-13-2008, 09:41 AM

I recently bought 4x1GB for my computer running xp home. My bios sees it and if I go to crucial.com to scan my system it sees it, but xp only reports 2.25.

I am told that xp caches this memory and if I want to have full use of my memory I need to upgrade to vista sp1.

Is this true?

thanks
Rittah

**kodi** · 06-13-2008, 12:04 PM

You need to Upgrade to XP 64 bit to make use of all 4 gigs

ebackhus · 06-13-2008, 01:25 PM

You'll need a 64-bit flavor of any Windows OS (except Linux) to use 4+ GB.

06-13-2008, 09:41 AM	#1 (permalink)
rittah Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1 OS: XP Home	4GB memory in XP I recently bought 4x1GB for my computer running xp home. My bios sees it and if I go to crucial.com to scan my system it sees it, but xp only reports 2.25. I am told that xp caches this memory and if I want to have full use of my memory I need to upgrade to vista sp1. Is this true? thanks Rittah

06-13-2008, 12:04 PM	#2 (permalink)
kodi Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Sydney Australia Posts: 6,576 OS: Windows Vista Ultimate, XP Professional My System	Re: 4GB memory in XP You need to Upgrade to XP 64 bit to make use of all 4 gigs __________________ Brian

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