I should have RTFM

-cranioscopical (September 26, 2007, 08:44 AM)

So should I: my motherboard is an ASUS P5B Deluxe, and not only the manual advises not to install more than 3 GB with XP 32 bit, it also states that I should have bought memory with the same CL. My old 2 GB are CL=5, whereas the newly acquired are CL=4.
I knew beforehand that XP wouldn't recognise all 4 GB, and I also knew that the faster memory would have too run at the same timings as the slower, but two 512 MB modules with CL=5 were only 25€ cheaper than the two 1 GB CL=4 modules I opted for, so I thought it would pay off to purchase the extra GB, since I'll probably move to 64 bit someday... I just hope I won't get into any stability problems because of this decision.

4 GB - though I'm on XP so only get 3.25. But at the prices these days why have less?

-katykaty (September 17, 2007, 02:19 PM)

My thought exactly, though it was a little frustrating at the time of purchase :)

-cranioscopical (September 17, 2007, 02:35 PM)

A bit OT:
I also have 4GB of RAM installed, and 32 bit XP only sees 2.93 GB. No surprises here, I suppose.

What's puzzling me is that when I go to the BIOS, the motherboard only sees 3008 MB as well. Shouldn't it see all 4 GB? Even if one the four 1 GB modules wasn't working correctly, I should have at least 3072 MB, right? Why only 3008?

Thanks, I'll look into it.