Ok, so I upgraded to windos 7, added another gig to my pc, but on my system it says 4gigs (3usable) my bios sees 4? I was running windows vista, with 3gigs installed I got another 2gig, removed the one for a total of 2,2gigs Operating System C1 2 • Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium (SP1,32-bit version) Processor and Chipset3 Intel® Centrino® Processor Technology featuring: • Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T5550 o 1.83GHz, 2MB L2, 667MHz FSB • Mobile Intel® PM965 Express Chipset • Integrated Wi-Fi® compliant wireless LAN o Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN (802.11a/g/n)4 Memory5 • Configured with 3072MB PC5300 DDR2 SDRAM (both memory slots may be occupied). Maximum capacity 4096MB Hard Disk Drive6 • 320GB (5400 RPM) Serial ATA hard disk drive Fixed Optical Disk Drive7 • DVD SuperMulti (+/-R double layer) with Labelflash™ drive supporting 11 formats o Maximum speed and compatibility: CD-ROM (24x), CD-R (24x), CD-RW (16x), DVD-ROM (8x), DVD-R (Single Layer, (8x)), DVD-R (Double Layer, (4x)), DVD-RW (6x), DVD+R (Single Layer, (8x)), DVD+R (Double Layer, (4x)), DVD+RW (8x), DVD-RAM (5x) o Supports Labelflash
What problems? You never really asked a question so i will assume you meant the fact you put in 4GB and it says 3 usable? 1. your onboard video steals RAM, how much RAM is allocated to video? 2. i don't know what version of 7 you are installing, but your post says Vista 32bit. 32bit OS can only use about 3.6GB so unless you are installing a 64bit version of Win7 your extra RAM is useless. Did i guess correctly?
sorry for lack of information, I was running windows vista with 3gigs of ram, I upgraded to windows 7 Ultimate 32bit. is there a way to update my bios to 64bit? so that I can use all of my RAM?
No problem, normally you will receive many offers of help around here if you ask good questions. It's not a matter of ONLY updating the BIOS. There really isn't anything in BIOS allowing 32 or 64bit Windows...Your CPU has to allow 64bit instructions set, and your Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T5550 does allow it so thats good. Now you need the 64-bit version of windows7 instead of the 32bit version you said you just updated to. Since you are using 32 bit at the moment, your computer sees around 3.5GB RAM no matter how much more than that you put in. Subtract a half GB that the video is stealing right off the top and you have 3GB usable.
rottingkd, Deadrum is correct that your 32bit version of windows is not allowing you to see the full amount of ram.
No problem. Thats actually a common question, and google would have easily answered it if the question was asked "properly" instead of casually. If there are any other issues post back, or if there are new questions, start a new thread. We'd be happy to help more.
