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January 23, 2010 at 04:07 PM
rjs714

Why does WinXP show half the installed memory?

by rjs714 . Updated 16 years, 5 months ago

I have a 10yr old PC (450mHz P3 – Win XP Home) which has given me great service. My problem is such: my AOpen AX6BC motherboard has 3 DIMM slots. In DIMM1 I have a 512MB module; in DIMM2 & 3 I have 128MB modules (768MB installed). The BIOS, POST screen & Everest (a system monitoring prog) show the installed memory in the range of 384 – 392MB. I ran memtest86+ and it also says 384MB of RAM – all the modules work in other machines. What’s wrong?

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