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I have a motherboard (old motherboard) and i have 6 gb of ram installed into it.

But my bios and windows says i can only use 3.12 gb.

I went and search my motherboards info and i found

That the motherboard accepts only 4gb max and has like a few mb reserved. And i want to let my pc use more ram.

Can anyone help me with this, it would be a great help.

 

Motherboard name: ASUS PSLO2-VM

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Well if the Mobo only supports 4gb max it can only support 4gb max so.... I guess you can only use 4gb...

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3 minutes ago, Abyss Gaming said:

Well if the Mobo only supports 4gb max it can only support 4gb max so.... I guess you can only use 4gb...

Ohh oke thanx

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You could add "virtual ram" to your PC, which doesn't make a difference either way.  If it only allows 4GB, then there is nothing can do but search for another motherboard.

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32 minutes ago, GTX_Refael said:

Can anyone help me with this, it would be a great help.

 

Motherboard name: ASUS PSLO2-VM

The only way to help would be to recommend a better socket 775 motherboard. Unfortunately, they are very hard to find. You could perhaps try to find a good used one.

Newegg has some re-furb 775 boards, but you'd have to check their descriptions for fit and max memory.

 

The best bet, given the age of the machine, would be to upgrade to an i3-6100 (or better) and an H110 motherboard (or better) and 8Gigs (or more) of DDR4-2133.

 

Note: You'll also need a 64-bit OS to access more than 4Gigs of RAM. If you are running an old 32-bit version of Windows XP you are basically out of luck, but if you are running 32-bit Windows 7, 8, or 10, you can upgrade to the 64-bit using the same product key as the 32-bit.

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Such an operation would include switching out the north bridge, which is motherboard side on older LGA775 motherboards, not on the CPU like today.

 

ASUS engineers would probably struggle with it for a few days if they seriously attempted to do so. So it's totally out the question for consumers to do themselves.

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There is the possibility of updating the BIOS and installing a 64 bit OS. This might allow for more RAM, however the limit may be due to hardware.

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