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Windows Server 2008 shows 8 gb ram installed, task manager shows max 4 gb

I have a Windows Server 2008 sp2 with 8 gb of ram installed.

This can be seen in the screenshot.

The issue is, in Task manager it reports 4 gb of physical memory available.  How can I fix this? As you can see, this server really needs that last 4 gig of memory!

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The reason the page show 8GB because the server hardware can see that must RAM but the OS can use that much RAM. The screen you are viewing is from the BIOS infomation.

Link on memory limits
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778(VS.85).aspx
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Thanks, I will look into the upgrade.