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I have a Dell PowerEdge 8600 server that had 2 GBs of RAM, I installed the maximum 8GBs. The Dell OpenManage Server Administrator shows that there is 8GBs but when I go to properties on My Computer it says 4GB.<br />
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Is there somewhere that I have to increase the memory that the operating system sees?
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I have a Dell PowerEdge 8600 server that had 2 GBs of RAM, I installed the maximum 8GBs. The Dell OpenManage Server Administrator shows that there is 8GBs but when I go to properties on My Computer it says 4GB.

Is there somewhere that I have to increase the memory that the operating system sees?

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