That's what I figured over all. David Ferrin
----- Original Message ----- From: "aiden gardiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] how much memorywillwindowsxpactuallyrecognize? > David, your quite correct, as media centre edition is essentially a media > centre sweet of software built on top of xp pro. > > Aiden > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Ferrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:44 PM > 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. 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] >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> >>> >>> No virus found in this incoming message. >>> Checked by AVG - 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