Ok then.. hehe.. If it works fine..then it is ok hehe...

And about the windows seeing 2GB (In fact you mentioned the ASUS motherboard with eNVIDIA chipset) right! 

You can can Asus and they will tell you this excatly!

The Asus motherboards or any others which uses SLI (OR EVEN A SINGLE PCIe 16x Slot) will reserve memory for its own chipset!!! and i've been into this problem bor the past 2 months with my latest upgrades on one of my workstations. And that is why i went with the latest ATI chipset PCIE 3200.

instead of 4GB..  all the asus showed me 2.48GB exactly some of them showed 2.4GB..

And now here is trick.. You said you are using the FX-55 right!

Before calling asus.. Please reboot your computer and goto into yout  BIOS..

There should be under your ram configurations menu an option should be called (REMMAPPING) the funny thing is. See first what is it setup to.. If it is enabled turn it OFF and if it OFF turn it on.. and check your memory under windows.. Trsut me!! I've through all this as i said for the past 1 1/2 months almost 2 tho..

And here is another trick...

You know that AMD till now they only supports DDR and not DDR2 like INTEL!! Make sure that your motherboard supports the whole 4GB in PC-3200 mode.. Becasue what i know is also for sure..

If you use three (3GB) of memory! they should run only at 333Mhz and if you want to use over 3GB they have to run on 266Mhz.. sounds crazy eh! oh well it is a fact in many motherboards specially the Asus..

*Check your Manual and see the memory configuration table and the max you can use with the right settings..

*Make sure to get your latest bios update casue sometimes it helps.. All the new SLI/CROSSFIRE/PCIe are totally new generation of technology and you know it.. so there will be always some issues...

*I don't know how you made that work as you mentioned that you installed in or under the safe mode.. I beleive you tho.. But it wasn't suppose to work..

But all i can tell you is.. that WINDOWS 32BIT XP PRO/HOME or WIN2K 2000 only sees 3GB of memory..

And the new 64BIT MS-OSs sees upto 16GB of memory and up! and that is what i use on all of workstations.

Here is a link to prove what i just mentioned: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEmem.mspx

Here is another trick... You said 4GB! means you are using 4 modules each by 1gb! try to take 1GB out and boot before you start the Memory REMAPPING! and see what it will see...

The reason i am asking tho.. I told you i am both adobe/micorsoft beta tester and MSDN partner.. and i really wanna know if that will help or no..

Thanks and much respect and again best regards.. and wonderful weekend to you too my friend.

 

JOE

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