4gb ram 3 gb usable

brianzion · 13 Feb 2011

have you looked in system configuration? type msconfig in start menu search box and click on msconfig in results to see what windows has allocated your ram at see my snapshot. also type resmon in start menu search box and click on resmon and you will see resource monitor as in other snapshot

fpopic · 13 Feb 2011

i tried that but everything is same

brianzion · 13 Feb 2011

fpopic said:

i tried that but everything is same

can you post a screenshot of resmon?

GeneO · 13 Feb 2011

fpopic said:

but what if I buy external 128mb graphic card

That won't make a difference.

yowanvista · 13 Feb 2011

The cause is most probably the graphic card which is allocated 1GB as hardware reserved memory, a system BIOS update might help but there is nothing you can do about that unusable 1GB

fpopic · 13 Feb 2011

yowanvista · 14 Feb 2011

fpopic said:

The 1GB is reserved for your Graphic card :)

brianzion · 14 Feb 2011

@yowanvista

bit confused over the memory specs?

yowanvista · 14 Feb 2011

brianzion said:

@yowanvista

bit confused over the memory specs?

Nope, the snips indicate 4GB of physical RAM, 3GB of useable RAM and 1GB of hardware memory :)

stormy13 · 14 Feb 2011

You missed this back on page 1,

fpopic said:

i have the same problem.
I had 1x2GB 800mhz (kingmax) ddr2 , and then i bought one stick more
now i have 2x2gb of same memory, but my windows 7 x64 says it is only 3,0 of 4Gb used.
I have indicated 128mb card

And it isn't all going to the onboard video, the rest of the 1 GB is taken by everything else that requires address space. fpopic forgot to update his specs.