Maximum ram in windows?

[Martin Naef]

Hi Declan

Gorman, Declan wrote:
> Does anybody know what is the maximum amount of ram that is accessible 
> by Windows XP and Vista?  I?m having difficulty getting a clear answer 
> from my browsing the many websites that I am led to believe hold the answer.
> I have 4GB on my motherboard and both windows installations only 
> recognise 3GB.

There seems to be an issue with some modern chip sets where at least XP 
only sees part of the memory. I've definitely seen that issue with 
MacPro machines (I think it was 2GB there) and also some of our new Quad 
cores (3.5GB instead of 4) at the office.

Bye
Martin

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