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B4N M3 · 03-16-2009, 11:52 PM

Help! Up until today I've been running 2.5 GB of RAM (2GB + 512MB) in my laptop (Toshiba Satellite 100 -036), but lately I've been doing a lot of photoshopping while listening to music and surfing the web and it's been a little choppy, so I went out and bought another 2GB stick.

I put it in, restarted my computer, it recognized the new hardware, gave my computer a higher Windows rating and all, but when I check, it says I only have 3 GB of RAM. What gives?

As far as I knew 32-bit Vista (which is my OS) was capable of recognizing up to 3.5 GB of RAM...is my new RAM simply mis-labelled? (it's a Cruical one from BestBuy).

Thanks.

EDIT: well, according to some of the stuff I've read it's because I don't have SP1...is that true?

03-16-2009, 11:52 PM	#1
B4N M3 oh you just look so big Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Home Posts: 254 Thanked 8 Times in 7 Posts Failed 0 Times in 0 Posts	WTF??? 2GB + 2GB = 3GB? What's going on with my RAM? Help! Up until today I've been running 2.5 GB of RAM (2GB + 512MB) in my laptop (Toshiba Satellite 100 -036), but lately I've been doing a lot of photoshopping while listening to music and surfing the web and it's been a little choppy, so I went out and bought another 2GB stick. I put it in, restarted my computer, it recognized the new hardware, gave my computer a higher Windows rating and all, but when I check, it says I only have 3 GB of RAM. What gives? As far as I knew 32-bit Vista (which is my OS) was capable of recognizing up to 3.5 GB of RAM...is my new RAM simply mis-labelled? (it's a Cruical one from BestBuy). Thanks. EDIT: well, according to some of the stuff I've read it's because I don't have SP1...is that true? Last edited by B4N M3; 03-17-2009 at 12:20 AM.