K9N PLATINUM RAM Issue

Hello there,
I have the following:
    * AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
    * K9N Platinum
    * Kingston 1GB DDR2-800 Ram Dimm (PC2 6400, KVR800D2N5/1G) X4
    * EVGA 512P3N802DX GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready
    * Western Digital 250GB (7200rpm, 16MB Cache, SATA 2)
    * no other peripherals
    * Vista Home Premium SP2 32bit
    * Thermaltake Lite Power W0294 PSU (500W)
DC Output +3,3V 24 A
DC Output +5V 24 A
DC Output +12V1 18 A
DC Output +12V2 18 A
Issue:
Installed 4GB of RAM and on boot-RAMcheck shows 4BG RAM OK.
Windows sees and reports this: Physical Memory, Total: 3070MB
I removed one by one the sticks and also swapped slots but the result is always the same.
Any ideas?

You are using a 32bit version of Windows.  A 32bit operating system provides an address decode space of 4GB.  Not all of the address space can be used for the system memory.  Part of it needs to be reserved for addressing other devices (so that they can function).  That is why it is actually impossible to full address 4GB of RAM with a 32bit OS.  The amount of usable memory may very between 2.5 and 3.5 GB, depending on the system configuration.
Solution:  Use a 64bit operating system.

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