Hello,
I know this is very old but I could not seem to get an answer. I have an old PC with Windows XP Professional (x86 I believe) freshly installed. It used to be an old PC that they had at my work, but they upgraded at work and were going to throw these away so I picked this "old" one up hoping I could do some simple tasks on it. So I did a clean install of XP and it seems to run well. Now, I purchased some RAM because it only had 1GB before, so I went out and bought 3GB (1GB x 3) more so I could max it out to 4GB. So I install it and I think everything is running well. I even checked the BIOS and it said I had 4GB installed. So the BIOS recognizes the 4GB, but XP does not. When I go to my system properties, it shows "1.00 GB of RAM". I've done all the system updates I can but it still shows only 1GB. I'm worried because other people have had at LEAST 2GB show up when having 4GB installed, so it's strange that it only shows 1GB. I even used CPU-Z and it shows 4GB. Again, I know that there was some errors with XP 32-bit, but all I want to know is that my PC is actually using the 4GB. I don't care if it only shows 1GB, but as long as the 4GB is being utilized, that's fine with me. Anyways, I'll post some of my specs here, and thank you for reading. If there is a way to fix this and show more than 1GB, please post. Any help is appreciated.
These were the extra 3GB of RAM that I picked up:
http://amzn.com/B004LTCHW0 & http://amzn.com/B004LT6NCK
Straight from "System Information"
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name TMT
System Manufacturer Dell Inc
System Model Dimension C521
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 107 Stepping 1 AuthenticAMD ~1903 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc 1.1.11, 8/2/2007
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5687 (xpsp_sp3_qfe.080930-1426)"
User Name TMT\Money
Time Zone Pacific Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 2,048.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 364.66 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 2.40 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
I know this is very old but I could not seem to get an answer. I have an old PC with Windows XP Professional (x86 I believe) freshly installed. It used to be an old PC that they had at my work, but they upgraded at work and were going to throw these away so I picked this "old" one up hoping I could do some simple tasks on it. So I did a clean install of XP and it seems to run well. Now, I purchased some RAM because it only had 1GB before, so I went out and bought 3GB (1GB x 3) more so I could max it out to 4GB. So I install it and I think everything is running well. I even checked the BIOS and it said I had 4GB installed. So the BIOS recognizes the 4GB, but XP does not. When I go to my system properties, it shows "1.00 GB of RAM". I've done all the system updates I can but it still shows only 1GB. I'm worried because other people have had at LEAST 2GB show up when having 4GB installed, so it's strange that it only shows 1GB. I even used CPU-Z and it shows 4GB. Again, I know that there was some errors with XP 32-bit, but all I want to know is that my PC is actually using the 4GB. I don't care if it only shows 1GB, but as long as the 4GB is being utilized, that's fine with me. Anyways, I'll post some of my specs here, and thank you for reading. If there is a way to fix this and show more than 1GB, please post. Any help is appreciated.
These were the extra 3GB of RAM that I picked up:
http://amzn.com/B004LTCHW0 & http://amzn.com/B004LT6NCK
Straight from "System Information"
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name TMT
System Manufacturer Dell Inc
System Model Dimension C521
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 107 Stepping 1 AuthenticAMD ~1903 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc 1.1.11, 8/2/2007
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5687 (xpsp_sp3_qfe.080930-1426)"
User Name TMT\Money
Time Zone Pacific Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 2,048.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 364.66 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 2.40 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
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