From: "P. J. Alling"
The fact that you can't see the additional memory could be a Bios
limitation, not an OS limitation.
On 1/20/2010 3:12 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
Took my laptop in this morning and had 4GB RAM installed (up from
2GB).
Turns out Windows Vista Ultimate is only 32bit and limits the
amount of RAM it can use to supposedly 3.5GB - System Information
is showing 3,069.44MB which I make to be 2.99GB.
Don't know why it doesn't show the whole 3.5GB.
No, it's Windows. I think the guy at the store who told me 32bit Vista
would see 3.5GB got it wrong; apparently 3GB is correct.
It certainly saw the increase from the 2GB originally installed. The
Windows 7 Adviser tool shows the machine is 64-bit capable, and Toshiba
does not have any outstanding BIOS updates for this model.
I've done a complete systems backup; installed all the patches and
service updates and have run into only one problem.
I turned the touchpad (that little glide thingy) OFF and can't remember
how to turn it back on. For some reason, the updated driver won't
install with it turned off.
Anyway, I've decided to replace the boot drive with a new 500GB 7200 RPM
SATA drive and do a clean install of Windows 7 64-bit on it. I'll
replace the second hard drive as well, but not right now. I'm thinking a
1TB notebook drive might be affordable by the time I'm ready to replace
the second drive.
I'm still studying on the software transfer/migration tools, but I might
just do clean installs of the programs I really use. These things come
with a lot of crap installed, and a lot of it I was afraid to remove
because I was afraid it'd screw it up.
I may go to an upgrade to 64-bit CS4 instead of trying to migrate my
32-bit CS3, although I was kind of hoping CS5 would be on the way by now.
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