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Everything inside the computer has to be addressed, and 32 bit is all you get to do it, that is 4 gigs, look inside of device manager and sort by connection type and look at all the memory addresses you are using. You will find every device has its own set of addresses it takes up. If it’s not addressed it can’t be used.
I just went through the device manager, and after adding up all the addresses:
PCI bus: 1.98 GB
System Board: 2.00 GB
For a total of 3.98 GB
So in a since I have 20 Megs of memory that is missing, everything else is accounted for. Holy cow my PCI Bus has 2 GB of addresses allocated to it, wow.
I’m going to try turning off some of the onboard devices I don’t use, parallel, LPT, fire wire, etc.
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