Hello Friends,
My Acer laptop runs on Genuine Win XP - Home SP2. I am old fashioned! Thrash me later for this but for now, please solve my problem:
1. I installed a stick of 2 GB RAM in one slot, other had 512 MB. So in all, now I have 2.5 GB of RAM. This is shown correctly in Start> Accessories> System tools> System Information. This place shows 2560 MB of RAM which is correct.
But when I right click on my Computer, it shows only 1.99 GB of RAM. I do not have any special gfx cards installed & the max it can take away is 8mb! I have read that WIN XP 32 bit can see a max of 4 GB of RAM. I am wondering, why I am not seeing other 500 MB of my RAM. BIOS does not have any setting regarding limiting the RAM. So experts Please help on this.
2. Another issue, my Philips DVD ROM Drive is not showing up in the drive list, disk management, any where?? It would show up occasionally though! Once it come up, it will be there (& working fine) until next re-boot. What is lying here?
Thanks PC Gurus in anticipation of help!
Regards.
My Acer laptop runs on Genuine Win XP - Home SP2. I am old fashioned! Thrash me later for this but for now, please solve my problem:
1. I installed a stick of 2 GB RAM in one slot, other had 512 MB. So in all, now I have 2.5 GB of RAM. This is shown correctly in Start> Accessories> System tools> System Information. This place shows 2560 MB of RAM which is correct.
But when I right click on my Computer, it shows only 1.99 GB of RAM. I do not have any special gfx cards installed & the max it can take away is 8mb! I have read that WIN XP 32 bit can see a max of 4 GB of RAM. I am wondering, why I am not seeing other 500 MB of my RAM. BIOS does not have any setting regarding limiting the RAM. So experts Please help on this.
2. Another issue, my Philips DVD ROM Drive is not showing up in the drive list, disk management, any where?? It would show up occasionally though! Once it come up, it will be there (& working fine) until next re-boot. What is lying here?
Thanks PC Gurus in anticipation of help!
Regards.