Memmory problems

Hello, I was wondering if anybody has an idea, why after installing 2 x 1gb of Corsair DDR2 Total 4 (already 2 of the same inside) the system reads only 3200mb. I don't think it's the memmory. The motherboard is an ASUS P5-LD2 with XP Pro. confused

 

unortunatly I havn't heard of anyone finding a solution for this problem yet... here is a link to another post w/ more or less the same issue... sorry MG admins but i really didnt want to have to sum it all up.

http://hardware.mcse.ms/archive69-2005-7-211339.html

 

Hi Mr Hundt, welcome to Major Geeks.

Many motherboards can only address 3G with Windows XP (more with Vista) even though they have slots for more.
I haven't time to look at your particular board tonight, but I will come back to it.


Studio T

 

To confirm studiot, the motherboard manual states (page 1-16, pdf document) that XP 32-bit will only see 3GB.

 

Thanks, Dan.

Studio T

 

You're welcome. :major

 

Sorry, I forgot the link yesterday;

http://support.asus.com/download/download_item.aspx?product=1&model=P5LD2-VM

It's about 3/4 down the page, > P5LD2-VM English Edition User's Manual(e2978), 2.45MB.

 

Thanks for all you help, I really appreciate it.