Weird! Thank you very much! Maybe I'll get a different tech, this time a friend who will look at it for free or for a meal out, to double check on it. If you or anyone else has tips on how to force windows to recognize it, that would be very much appreciated. If not, hopefully my friend will know something this other tech didn't, or I'll just blame it on the extra memory on the video card and try to move on with life. Missy
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Ferrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 7:44 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] how much memory willwindowsxpactuallyrecognize? According to my information XP media center should pick up the entire 4 GB. David Ferrin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Missy Hoppe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 7:38 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] how much memory will windowsxpactuallyrecognize? > I'm using xp media center, so does that mean it should be recognizing my > full 4 GB? Any theories on why this isn't the case, and how I might go > about fixing it? I'm just curious, because if a tech couldn't figure it > out, I'm assuming it must be pretty complicated. Mostly, I'm baffled as > to > why it changed in the first place. > Thanks for your reply, and I hope that you're having a great day! > Missy > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Ferrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 6:21 AM > Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] how much memory will windows > xpactuallyrecognize? > > > 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. 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