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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
I'm also using an old Gateway P4. It originally only had 512mb RAM. I bumped it up to 2gb, then 4gb, and that's when I found out the 32-bit system could only use 2gb.  |
Seriously??? I've been trying to add more RAM for some time now. Originally had 1Gig, and maybe a year ago bought another 2Gig in two parts, but never got it to work when putting in both extra mem blocks. I've been wondering what the hell was wrong with me or my pc, but now I finally know.... Thanks for that Steve, it was driving me crazy.
However, my system runs on an AMD 64 processor, so if I were to install a 64-bit Windows version I would be able to add more memory? Seems weird to me, because my pc is also about 6 years old. And it seems weird to me they were already making systems that were 64-bit ready back then. So if you could tell me anything about that I"d be very grateful. Sorry for dragging this thread slightly off-topic, but I really wanna find out about this..