Help! My Mac Pro only reads 1.86GB out of 6GB in Windows 7 32-bit

I'm having issues with my Mac Pro not being able to read all my memory in windows 7 32-bit. I know that 32 bit OS can only read up to 3.5GB or something like that, but mine is only reading 1.86GB out of the 6GB i have installed. I've installed all the necessary drivers from the Mac OS X CD and updated everything.
Im stuck and now i dont know what to do! Help!

Home Premium only supports one physical processor, not two like you have. My guess is it doesn't see the RAM on the 2nd processor daughter card. To use two cpus you need Windows 7 Pro.
Besides which you really should be looking at 64-bit anyway, and all retail versions of 7 come with both DVDs.

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