Win XP service pack 3

[WarpDrive]

Geeks..............

[hucklongfin]

That's 4 gig total address space with a 32 bit OS... not just ram. The bios, video memory, etc all are mapped into that 4gb. That's why you often see Vista PC's with 3gb ram. If you have 4 gb of ram you'll see less than that due to the other devices.

[JiGGZ]

Originally Posted by FishStalker

It's pretty cut and dried from a computer science perspective. Windows xp is a 32 bit operating system. This limits the amount of addressable RAM to 4GB. The hardware doesn't matter beyond that (BIOS, etc). The OS cannot address the additional memory.

If you want to use more than 4GB of memory, you need to move to a 64 bit OS.

Windows Vista And 4GB Of Memory

As I said originally 4 G MAX on XP It CAN use it. Thnx

[http404]

Heh, funny stuff.

[dogtownanglers]

i have a hp laptop that suck up a virus/spyware virus and will not boot out of the sign on screen i put in my password and it keeps rebooting,i was told to wipe the hard drive clean and reinstall windows xp am i hearing right? i bought a mac since that problem happened.i did not by it because it had a problem i was getting a desk top computer. i would like to get it working again is there any hope in saving it.any info would be greatly appreciated to avoid going to the geek squad.....

[Lend-a-Fish]

its cool, im not trying to make the arguement as though im correct, like i said im just repeating shit i overheard (thats from Jackie Brown).

The people that said this were not the masses on the blog but were mods, which doesnt mean shit. There are mods on here that probably dont know shit about fishing, let alone about tackle.

Honestly, i dont know a ton about computers, but im learning as much as i can and its empowering. I was helping my dad fix issues with his dell pent 4 with XP and was reading threads on upgrading RAM and i read that in a couple places. I dont take any of it for gospel. you are probably right. See, that was easy. ding ding ding, we have a unanimous decision.