David, your quite correct, as media centre edition is essentially a media centre sweet of software built on top of xp pro.
Aiden ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Ferrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:44 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] how much memory willwindowsxpactuallyrecognize? > According to my information XP media center should pick up the entire 4 > GB. > David Ferrin > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Missy Hoppe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 7:38 AM > Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] how much memory will > windowsxpactuallyrecognize? > > >> I'm using xp media center, so does that mean it should be recognizing my >> full 4 GB? Any theories on why this isn't the case, and how I might go >> about fixing it? I'm just curious, because if a tech couldn't figure it >> out, I'm assuming it must be pretty complicated. Mostly, I'm baffled as >> to >> why it changed in the first place. >> Thanks for your reply, and I hope that you're having a great day! >> Missy >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "David Ferrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 6:21 AM >> Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] how much memory will windows >> xpactuallyrecognize? >> >> >> XP home will handle 2 GB, the professional can handle 4 GB. >> David Ferrin >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Missy Hoppe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "blind computing" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 3:27 AM >> Subject: [Blind-Computing] how much memory will windows xp >> actuallyrecognize? >> >> >>> Hello, all. I'll try to keep this as short and simple as possible. I've >>> got >>> 4 GB of ram in my system. About a week and a half ago, my video card >>> ended >>> up dying, and I bought a replacement. My old card had 256 mb of ram on >>> it, >>> and the new card supposedly has 512 mb of ram on it. I had a company >>> come >>> and install the new video card last Wednesday. Prior to the change in >>> video >>> card, I would have sworn that my computer was recognizing 3.0 gb of ram. >>> I >>> had read on more than one occasion that win XP, especially the 32 bit >>> version simply won't recognize the full 4 GB of ram I chose to install >>> when >>> I built my system, and was OK with that. After the change in video card, >>> however, my system is only recognizing 2.5 GB of ram. The technician >>> actually came back out to investigate, as I was convinced that a ram >>> chip >>> may have come lose during the installation of the video card. As it >>> turns >>> out, all of my memory is physicly fine; is recognized by the motherboard >>> and by software like cpuz with no problem. The tech informed me that the >>> decrease actually happened when I installed sp3, but I can't help >>> thinking >>> that this is inaccurate, since, like I said above, I am pretty sure that >>> I >>> can remember having 3.0 gb of ram before the video card change. >>> I realize that on the whole, the ram decrease probably isn't a big deal, >>> but it does seem that JFW loads a bit slower when I start my system. >>> I guess I just want some other opinions for my own piece of mind, and to >>> know whether or not I should look into this further or just accept that >>> this is the way things are now. Thank you all very much for your time, >>> and >>> I hope this makes sense to some of you. >>> Missy >>> -------------- next part -------------- >>> >>> No virus found in this outgoing message. >>> Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com >>> Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.6.15/1649 - Release Date: >>> 9/3/2008 >>> 7:15 AM >>> Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: >>> http://www.jaws-users.com >>> Visit the Blind Computing home page at: >>> http://www.blind-computing.com >>> Address for the list archives: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>> To post to this group, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject >>> or body of a blank message to: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Use the following address in order to contact the management team >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the >>> following address: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: >> http://www.jaws-users.com >> Visit the Blind Computing home page at: >> http://www.blind-computing.com >> Address for the list archives: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject >> or body of a blank message to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Use the following address in order to contact the management team >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the >> following address: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com >> Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.6.16/1651 - Release Date: 9/4/2008 >> 6:57 AM >> -------------- next part -------------- >> >> No virus found in this outgoing message. >> Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com >> Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.6.16/1651 - Release Date: 9/4/2008 >> 6:57 AM >> Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: >> http://www.jaws-users.com >> Visit the Blind Computing home page at: >> http://www.blind-computing.com >> Address for the list archives: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject >> or body of a blank message to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Use the following address in order to contact the management team >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the >> following address: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Visit the Blind Computing home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following address in order to contact the management team > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following address in order to contact the management team [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
