Advice for a bleeding-edge rig.

[jaxspades]

Yeah, so would the Air Force, if my uncle has been trying to recruit me right.....

You could work construction--get about 12-15 bucks an hour, work a 40-60 hour week.....you could have it paid off in a month and a half.

Or, you could take Quagmire's advice:

"You could sell yourself to 5175 fat chicks for a buck each--cuz, hey, fat chicks need love too."

[DaveW]

Maybe it's HOME edition that only recognizes 2 gig.. I dunno I only have two dimm slots atm, so i can only do 2gig max anyway..

Check your motherboard's capabilites and settings.

-Dave

[gaz_the_chav]

Hmmmm I remember I had 512mb of RAM and put another 1gb (in an Abit AN7) which can handle upto 3gb's of RAM but it never recognised the other 1GB of RAM. I still have the stick that did not work any chance it could be the settings on the motherboard?

-gaz

[slytherock]

Hmmmm I remember I had 512mb of RAM and put another 1gb (in an Abit AN7) which can handle upto 3gb's of RAM but it never recognised the other 1GB of RAM. I still have the stick that did not work any chance it could be the settings on the motherboard?

-gaz

Have you tried the faulty stick of RAM alone on the board?
It also can be a compatibility problem 1- with the board 2- With the other stick of RAM

[Airbozo]

Here is what I found out concerning the memory limitations of windows XP (as far as I can tell it is the same for home and pro);

Windows XP can recognize a total of 4gb of memory. This includes the page file. If you have 4gb of memory _and_ have the page file turned on, the system will only use/see 3gb of physical memory. If you turn off the page file, windows will see all 4gb of physical memory and will probably run faster (don't take my word for this one).

http://www.brianmadden.com/content/content.asp?ID=69
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555223