4gig ram and 2.8 useable?

Windows Vista

4gig ram and 2.8 useable?

Posted by admin on Dec 12th, 2006

I've got 4gb ram in my machine but Control Panel > System indicates 2814 mb. I realize in 32bit that I lose some address space, but this seems a little silly esp. with a 512mb video card. How do I troubleshoot this?thanks, Dave

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  1. anonymous Says:

    Look for the answer under your other posting. Regards,Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User (For email, remove the obvious from my address)Quote from George Ankner: If you knew as much as you think you know, You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"Dave Parker"

  2. anonymous Says:

    solution.......................greatings, johnny. "Richard Urban" schreef in bericht

  3. anonymous Says:

    What does your video RAM have to do with system RAM? Uh, nothing? Unless your video RAM is shared with system RAM. But you say you have a 512MB video card, so one must assume you're not using shared RAM for video. True or false?Lang"Dave Parker"

  4. anonymous Says:

    I have 512mb on the video card and of course Windows has to account for that is has to live in the allowed 4gb address space for 32 bits. Still I was expecting to get 3.5 gb rather than 2.8 gb of unusable RAM. More than 1/2gb of address space that something has grabbed I would just like to figure out what... 680i SLI motherboard with a core2 Duo Extreme x6800 and a single GeForce 7950 GS.Dave"Lang Murphy"

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