Hi - Would really appreciate some help from the community regarding this small problem I'm facing.
I have a Compaq laptop (CQ50-215NR) which had Vista installed on it.The computer had begun to hang and crash so I decided to go back to XP.I installed XP SP3 and after installation I found that the OS is recognizing only 1.75 GB of RAM (on the System Properties Window:"sysdm.cpl") whereas the laptop has 2GB RAM installed.However the BIOS and on another CPU Monitoring software (CPUz) are indicating that 2GB of RAM is indeed installed.
Does this imply that 256 MB of RAM is lying unused.....or is it of no importance ?
Can someone please help me out with this ? Would really appreciate it.....
Thanks
I have a Compaq laptop (CQ50-215NR) which had Vista installed on it.The computer had begun to hang and crash so I decided to go back to XP.I installed XP SP3 and after installation I found that the OS is recognizing only 1.75 GB of RAM (on the System Properties Window:"sysdm.cpl") whereas the laptop has 2GB RAM installed.However the BIOS and on another CPU Monitoring software (CPUz) are indicating that 2GB of RAM is indeed installed.
Does this imply that 256 MB of RAM is lying unused.....or is it of no importance ?
Can someone please help me out with this ? Would really appreciate it.....
Thanks