The system is at it's maximum available memory limit due to the requirement to retain a 32bit architecture, adding 2GB or 200GB, (I know this is not possible), would not change that at all,
As one reason for not updating the software to allow use of 64 Bit architecture is cost, simply throwing money at the problem is not a viable solution :)
Thats true.
In that case I will probably go for another 2 x 2 Gb of the same brand and get 8 Gb...
Its not big investment and its worth trying. Thank you for the suggestion.
The system is at it's maximum available memory limit due to the requirement to retain a 32bit architecture, adding 2GB or 200GB, (I know this is not possible), would not change that at all,
As one reason for not updating the software to allow use of 64 Bit architecture is cost, simply throwing money at the problem is not a viable solution :)
One thing I would check is the BIOS.
Check to ensure that any on-board graphics is actually switched off, most systems will use any installed discrete graphics over internal, but may not actually switch off the onboard graphics ant it's use of memory
The reason I suggest this is I have just checked my system and it shows a system reserved amount of Approximately 18MB, OK that is on a 64Bit system with 32GB of ram with a discreet Graphics Card but is far less that the system in question with the issue
Before I upgraded to i7 860 I had i3 540
i3 540 CPU has graphics chip within the CPU package so I didnt have descreete graphics card.
i7 860 CPU doesnt have graphics chip within the CPU package and motherboard doesnt have the chip either.
So I put the descreete graphics.
Still system only shows 2.96Gb available. Its really low amount. If I can somehow get it to 3.5Gb that would be improvement.
P.S.
BIOS is not the latest. I might try update the BIOS first although everything is working properly.
Last edited by Dolke; 08 Mar 2016 at 04:48.
For Windows 32 Bit, it's not only a max 4 GB RAM limit, it's also a 4 GB Address Space limit.
Adding a GPU with built in VRAM will not increase the amount of RAM available to Windows.
Having PC with 4 GB RAM and adding a GPU with .5 GB VRAM will not give you 4.5 GB Address Space (RAM) in Win 32 Bit.
You can go through all your BIOS settings and disable everything you don't need, such as a Floppy Drive, Parallel Port, etc.
You can also adjust the amount of memory used wherever possible.
The settings available depend on what your motherboard offers, you have to take time and find what you can do, and test any changes.
I see.
Thank you for the suggestions.
I will try these settings and I might upgrade BIOS to a newest version.
P.S.
Is there some other features that people usually disable in order to increse amout of avaialbe RAM iin window 7?
Of course disable those should be safe and not to influence stability of the system.
You could check out what services you have running and consider turning some of them off, particularly non-Microsoft services.
There are web sites that will tell you which services you can safely turn off, but many would say that those web sites are not reliable and that turning off any particular service may have unintended consequences because services can be dependent on each other to an extent.
So basically non of those lets call them tweaks is not reliablie and can cause system not be stable.
I will check those BIOS settings but I really dont have the habit of turning such services on and off.
I think one should really understand to the bottom what hes doing and I dont know that Im one of them in most of the time. :)
Yes Nigel my reasoning was just that the 4GB was maxed out and it might be increased that tiny bit or even the memory loaded more evenly - through more chips being available.The system is at it's maximum available memory limit due to the requirement to retain a 32bit architecture, adding 2GB or 200GB, (I know this is not possible), would not change that at all,
Dolke did you say you tried the optimise tutorial?
I did try the tut but honestly I didnt go through all of the steps just yet.
I found another interesting thing... I noticed that RDC sessions (some of them) use more resources then others.
For example, I have 6 user accounts on this machine. When 2 of those users connect remotely via RDC Skype loads on these and thats something totally unnessesary. These RDC sessions should be "flat" meaning only needed services should run...
Is there a way to optimize those(RDC sessions)?
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