Kingston ram not reading

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Clinetyme, Nov 15, 2008.

  1. Clinetyme

    Clinetyme Private First Class

    I just bought 2 sticks of Kingston ram...each at 2 gigs for a total of 4 gigs...but its only reading 2.46 gigs...i have a compaq w/ a pent 4, 3 gig...is it because it cant hold 4 gigs?....its a newer comp
     
  2. plodr

    plodr Major Geek Super Extraordinaire

    32 bit OSes are limited to seeing a bit over 3GB of RAM. If you are running XP or Vista 32 bit version then your computer will not see the 4GB.
     
  3. Clinetyme

    Clinetyme Private First Class

    thats what i kinda figured........thx for the info
     

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