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Why does Windows only show about 3.5 GB of my more than 4 GB of RAM?

I decided to add 2 GB to my laptop.

Before i have 2 GB.

So, after adding i suppose to have whole 4 GB.

But i have avaible only 3,2 GB. Resource monitor in Win7 (32bit) said, that 700+ MB are reserved by BIOS and periphery hardware.

So, what is it and how to free some memory if it can be free without bad circumstates?

Thanks for explanation!

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http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/not-showing-all-ram-in-win7-he-32-bit/5ab5c647-8a50-40d0-9fc6-f9db813a66a4

32-Bit releases do not have the ability to utilize more than the 3.75GB of RAM. This is due in part to other hardware components (such as the video card) utilizing some of the RAM, as well as a limitation within the architecture itself. Nothing can be done to increase the amount of usable RAM short of installing a 64-bit version of the OS.

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