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8 gig ram

I got new pc has 4 slots on mother board. I have installed 4 by 2 gig memory chips.
However all I got is 2.98GB of ram...

Any explanation?
any thing I have to do with bios?

Thanks in advance...
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What tells you this amount of ram - the BIOS or the O/S??
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Did you get XP or Vista? This is will make a difference...
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windows xp ,
asper to dll I can add 8gb
is it os limitation?
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Is there are 64 for windowsxp?
anything else need to be changed if I upgrade to 64bit base?
I means all my software run as supposed?


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thnx
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Your 32 bit software will run as long as the installer for that program is 32 bit, and not 16 bit. A lot of the older applications came with a 16 bit installer and 16 bit is not supported in XP 64or Vista 64.
if it becomes an issue you can run vmware