3 GB visible of 4 GB Ram on 64-bit Windows

samuria said:

If the video is showings extra memory and you add the extra to what Windows is reporting that seems to account for it all

Okay but how do I fix it? How do I reduce the extra memory used by video and assign it to the main memory?

Try Shared Memory on BIOS settings.

Megahertz07 said:

Try Shared Memory on BIOS settings.

There is no such option.
My BIOS is similar to this one: Phoenix - Award BIOS simulation and help

And here are all the screens, have a look and see what can be tried:





















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What you have under Advanced Chipset - VGA settings - PEG - Onchip VGA control?

Megahertz07 said:

What you have under Advanced Chipset - VGA settings - PEG - Onchip VGA control?

Okay I'll see tomorrow if that works

Layback Bear said:

Having the complete System Specs would be helpful.

Any way check the motherboard manual and see what the default is for Gate A-20.

mjf said:

Apparently you haven't bothered checking the msconfig boot settings.

What else do I need to check? The current settings are Normal Startup and the Maximum Memory option is unchecked. I have even tried setting the Maximum Memory to 4096, but to no avail.

AddRAM said:

According to Resource Monitor you have NO memory dedicated to video (nothing is showing as hardware reserved)

But, you only have 3070 MB of memory showing up, something is definitely wrong.

Although you said CPU`z shows the correct amount.

That`s 1026 MB not showing up in Resource Monitor, where is it

Maybe it`s just a glitch, take the memory out, start the PC without memory, let it give you the beeps, shut it down and reinstall the memory.

Then restart the PC, give us the results.

Doesn't make any difference... I even swapped the RAM sticks..

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What could this be? It is kind of weird that where programs like HWMonitor/CPU-Z show the correct amount of RAM, even the BIOS shows wrong RAM (3GB).

I just read a similar thread on Tom's Hardware and the OP's issue was solved by updating their BIOS. My BIOS is a Pheonix-Award BIOS version 6.00PG and MB is Intel AWRDACPI. Any help on how to update would be great. Meanwhile I'm searching too.

sorry for the double post, i don't use forums much

EDIT: I just read on many sites that updating the BIOS can be a dangerous task and can even brick the computer. I think I will just live with 3 GB Ram, however, I read somewhere that still having 2x2 RAM instead of 2x1 is better for a PC. Is that true?