I have recently installed 4Gb of ram for an existing 12.04 32bit Ubuntu. It's not being recognised, only 3.2Gb is showing, See:

administrator@Root2:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3355256    1251112    2104144          0      48664     391972
-/+ buffers/cache:     810476    2544780

System is PAE capable, See:

administrator@Root2:~$ grep --color=always -i PAE /proc/cpuinfo
flags       : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm dts
flags       : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm dts

The system us fully patched and tried to run manual PAE upgrade, See:

administrator@Root2:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-generic-pae linux-headers-generic-pae
[sudo] password for administrator: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
linux-generic-pae is already the newest version.
linux-headers-generic-pae is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  language-pack-zh-hans language-pack-kde-en language-pack-kde-zh-hans
  language-pack-kde-en-base kde-l10n-engb kde-l10n-zhcn
  language-pack-zh-hans-base firefox-locale-zh-hans
  language-pack-kde-zh-hans-base
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

I am not sure what else to try to recognise the full physical memory installed other than loading 64bit. Any thoughts? Thanks!

output of uname -r

administrator@Root2:~$ uname -r
3.2.0-24-generic-pae