I got a MS-7253 k9vgm with 4gb ram and W7253VMS.180 BIOS but I only can see 3GB

Hi,
I have a MS-7253 with 4gb ram recently installed on it but in bios memory check state it only shows 312something KB (3.2GB) and BIOS is the latest one.
According to MSI's site, this motherboard is supporting upto 4gb. I've turned off the on board vga as well and my vga card is an nvidia geforce 8400GM.
the funny part is windows 7 recognize the whole 4gb but it says I only can use 2.8gb of it.
whats wrong with my M/B? is there any other update which I'm not aware of?

Thanks for your reply,
does that mean there is no chance for upgrading ram to 4g? or by BIOS update I can do that?
I have found another BIOS update newer than what I've got from this link: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=153338.0
just in case if I screw my BIOS can I revert it back to what it used to be?

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