ASUS A6Ja - Force bios to 4gb ram support

Hi!

Is there any way to force bios to releave 4gb. installed ram? Maybe, is there any hidden option?

I wait to upgrade with a new Merom cpu and I already installed 4gb ram but, unfortunatelly, the bios releaves only 2,99 gb.

Any idea?

Thanks in advance!
Mark.

 

Not with XP32/Vista32. You can go with Vista64 & use the full 4g of ram.

 

Exuse me,

Before to load any O.S., the bios is independent and it reads all installed ram.
I believe which this is a ram limited at 2 gb.
Maybe, when the new cpu (Merom), will it installed, the bios will see all installed ram, or no?

Thanks!

 

That's quite possible about the bios seeing your ram. As a matter of fact I use Vista Home Premium (32bit) & it "see's" the 4g of ram I have installed. However that does not mean it can use it all. Your cpu will not help in this regard as the most memory a 32bit OS can use is 3g with some using a little more & some using a little less.

The only way you can use more is to go with a 64bit OS.

Sorry.

 

Even with a 64bit os, his laptop cannot see All 4 gigs of ram. Its a chipset limitation, same as my c90s.

 

Just shows how every model is different. My F8Sn shows the 4g in bios.

 

Well, the A6Ja uses the Intel 945PM express chipset which can support up to 4gb of ram. However, your bios will also need to recognize it as well as your OS before you can actually utilize the full 4gb.

 

RAM limitation Has nothing to do with BIOS Chipset, CPU and so on.
It is clearly 32-bit OS limitation

Please follow this link that explains some basics for dude (no intention to abuse anybody, just follow link)

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000811.html.

 

eerrr..... this a quote from your article..
"However, even with a 64-bit OS, you'll still be at the mercy of your motherboard's chipset and BIOS; make sure your motherboard supports using 4 GB or more of memory"

This might be a better article
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605/en-us

 

MoBo, chpset and BIOS limitations have different and non-related roots.
When the computer world migrate to 64 bit software, be sure you will find around all this stuff ready to utilize 64 bit platform. Today it is costly and doesn't make any sense.

 

Uhmmmmm..... how many users.....
however, I think, even if my chipset supports full over 4gb, I will have to wait for a new bios. The last available, is the version 2.17 already installed. Maybe, some bios hacked, should be a possible solution!

Thanks!
Mark.

 

YET EACH MAN KILLED THE THING HE LOVED

 

Uh.....ok.

 

yeah, I don't get that post either

OP, if it is indeed correct that the chipset supports the RAM (which you would need to double-check/research, personally I cannot confirm it), then you are indeed probably suffering from a BIOS limitation. Did you check the support.asus.com website for an updated BIOS for your machine?

Edit: sorry, yes you did, didn't read carefully enough.

Well in that case, there's nothing to do about it... (hacked BIOSes, I wouldn't recommend it...)

In any case, besides Win32 not using it, there's little benefit right now to having more than 3GB of RAM, so the problem is more or less academic until the 64-bit future really comes to be, and even more memory-hungry OSes and applications are released...

 

what's the update here?

did anyone tried 4GB and 64bit OS?