OT: Need Vista help suggestions

[AgentZero]

Fyron said:
The actual limit in win32 is somewhere around 3.5GB, depending on how the motherboard chipset reserves hardware address space.

I thought it could handle 4GB, but most people only saw 3GB because Windows takes 500MB as protected kernel something or other space, then it addresses the video card, which tend to be 512MB in most cases, which only left it 3GB worth of addresses to give to the RAM.

I have 32-bit Vista running with 4GB of RAM installed, and Vista recognizes that I have 4GB of memory, but only shows 3GB as the total available.