XP home will handle 2 GB, the professional can handle 4 GB. David Ferrin
----- Original Message ----- From: "Missy Hoppe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "blind computing" <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 3:27 AM Subject: [Blind-Computing] how much memory will windows xp actuallyrecognize? > Hello, all. I'll try to keep this as short and simple as possible. I've > got > 4 GB of ram in my system. About a week and a half ago, my video card ended > up dying, and I bought a replacement. My old card had 256 mb of ram on it, > and the new card supposedly has 512 mb of ram on it. I had a company come > and install the new video card last Wednesday. Prior to the change in > video > card, I would have sworn that my computer was recognizing 3.0 gb of ram. I > had read on more than one occasion that win XP, especially the 32 bit > version simply won't recognize the full 4 GB of ram I chose to install > when > I built my system, and was OK with that. After the change in video card, > however, my system is only recognizing 2.5 GB of ram. The technician > actually came back out to investigate, as I was convinced that a ram chip > may have come lose during the installation of the video card. As it turns > out, all of my memory is physicly fine; is recognized by the motherboard > and by software like cpuz with no problem. The tech informed me that the > decrease actually happened when I installed sp3, but I can't help thinking > that this is inaccurate, since, like I said above, I am pretty sure that I > can remember having 3.0 gb of ram before the video card change. > I realize that on the whole, the ram decrease probably isn't a big deal, > but it does seem that JFW loads a bit slower when I start my system. > I guess I just want some other opinions for my own piece of mind, and to > know whether or not I should look into this further or just accept that > this is the way things are now. Thank you all very much for your time, and > I hope this makes sense to some of you. > Missy > -------------- next part -------------- > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.6.15/1649 - Release Date: 9/3/2008 > 7:15 AM > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Visit the Blind Computing home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ > To post to this group, send email to > blind-computing@jaws-users.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following address in order to contact the management team > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following address in order to contact the management team [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
