Well as an update I'm still in a pickle. Upgraded and bought a LOT of ram (up to 16gb). System information installed memory as 15.7gb, task manager says 16.1 gigs total with over 13g available and...

Whoops repeated post.

Yeah I think I'll go round up some more. It runs really well and has been for years now. I think I found some super ghetto back alley stuff that I put in there.

I did run Belarc

As far as the "memory" section goes, if thats pertinent

7424 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'DIMM1' has 32 MB
Slot 'DIMM2' has 32 MB
Slot 'DIMM3' is Empty
Slot...

Well I put a little more in there, even that doesn't really have any insight to what kind of RAM I've put in there



I have tried that with no avail. Was thinking of just borrowing a new one or...

Updated my info a bit. Never checked it before but in system information I get a "not available" under "installed physical Memory (RAM)". Don't recall exactly what I put in there but I'm beginning...

Well that brings me back to the first problem--- the windows 10 setup insists I need 2gb of Ram when i have FAR more than that.

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My pc has 8 gb of ram. I have gone into the BIOS and turned on default settings to see if that fixes it (it doesn't).

Attempting to install off of a flash drive. Trying to boot off of a flash...