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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
hm, thanks andy. it shouldn't be a problem with the ram pairing ; it's all the same. i only installed 3 because apparently winxp doesn't do well with more than 3go of ram and it would be more time and trouble than i feel like spending on it to tweak the settings even to get it to see the 4th barrette.
i'll try memtest86 next then ; memtest (no number) said i had no errors on the first pass but it's possible it was too short / too superficial a test to be conclusive.
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It's not that XP doesn't do well with more than 3 gig of RAM, it's just that the OS won't see more than that. However, it depends on whether you are using the 32bit or 64bit versions of XP. The 64bit version will see the additional gig of RAM.