6GB ram installed 5.5 usable ?

lamboss said:

I updated the Bios to a much newer version and its detecting and using all 6GB installed now :)
I am not very happy happy with the bios tough because it freezes sometimes

Thanks for the help :)

Wishing you and everyone a Happy Christmas :)

Did you backup and save your previous bios version.

open task manager, performance tab, then click resource monitor. you can see exactly how all of your ram is used and allocated.

and see this: only 2.5 gigs ram in 64 bit?

on the above link, the person who had their memory problem also had an nvidia card installed. see if you have memory reserved for hardware in the resource monitor.

those of us who jumped into the 64-bit windows arena like to have our systems with 4, 6, 8, 12, or 16 gigs of memory, but even though the architecture allows the addressing advantage over the 32-bit systems, you can only still use or have available a certain amount at any given time. meaning, part of your memory is always going to be in use by something--that's how it is. i have 8 installed in my system--at this time writing this, i have system info open, task manager open, resource monitor open, outlook 2007, and firefox with 8 tabs open--all of this along with the programs and services that start automatically and i only have available 5.97 gigs. it's not a problem--i know i have 8 gigs installed and for whatever task i need to perform, 5 to 6 gigs of my available memory is more than enough to get my task done in an efficient time. as adrian stated above, you're stats look good and everything seems in order.

that .5gigs "just sitting there doing nothing for you" are more than likely reserved by the os for hardware.

i'd be more concerned if you had 6 installed and only had 2 available--5.5, you're good

cool.