Well no, I've seen systems with 4G of memory show:

2.5G
2.8G
3.5G

with /PAE 

:)

On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:30:54AM -0700, maccrawj wrote:
> Not a bug, that's the Microsoft artificial memory map limit on 32bit OS to 
> (ostensibly) prevent driver issues caused by brain dead drivers writing to 
> 64bit 
> addresses as if they were 32bit which is also why x64 is so draconian about 
> signed 
> drivers! In other words despite PAE MS prevents working outside 32bit/4GB 
> memory 
> space on32bit OS. This was the subject of much discussion a few months ago 
> here and 
> someone posted a link to the conspiracy guy who "outed" M$' secret agenda, 
> LOL.
> 
> Now assuming x64 hardware, switch to a x64 OS (caveat "The BIOS must support 
> the 
> memory remapping feature") to get 4GB+ addressable w/ device memory mapped 
> above that.
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605
> 
> On 4/30/2010 3:35 PM, Bryan Seitz wrote:
> > Yeah I've seen that bug too, even with /PAE etc still doesn't fix it.
> > You should upgrade to Win7-64 :)
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 06:32:30PM -0400, Jason Carson wrote:
> >> I have 6 GB of RAM and a GeForce 295 with 1.7 GB of memory but am running
> >> WinXP 32 bit and my system only shows that I have 2.49 GB of RAM.
> >>
> >>> Well, it does sort of sound like that.  I have Win 7 ultimate with 6GB
> >>> RAM.
> >>> When I right-click on My Computer and select properties, it says I have
> >>> 6.0GB.  On my work machine (4GB RAM) with XP and 2 graphic cards, it says
> >>> I
> >>> have about 2.89GB RAM.
> >>>

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Bryan G. Seitz

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