6GB ram installed 5.5 usable ?

[lamboss]

Hi everyone

I installed 6 GB of ram today and at first it only showed 2 GB usable memory then I tweaked around with the settings and got it up to 5.5 GB

How can I get it to its full capacity 6GB ?

my motherboard I think does not support memory mapping and I re-installed the OS Win 7 64bit but still shows 5.5 GB

thx for the help in advance

 

[jav]

What you tweaked to make it 5,5 GB?

1. click start and write msinfo32 and click enter.
look does it what it shows?

2. I think it's because you video card had shared memory, so 512 MB of your RAM is used for video memory.

also you may take a look here: Windows 7 only recognizing 5 out of 6 GB of RAM, WHY?? (Installed memory (RAM): 6.00 GB (4.99 GB usable))

 

[lamboss]

I went to > msconfig > boot tab > advanced options > and unchecked maximum memory and it became 5.5 Gb

i have a 512mb geforce 9600gt .. so im not really sure ?

in msinfo32 shows

Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 6.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 5.50 GB
Available Physical Memory 4.21 GB
Total Virtual Memory 11.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 9.67 GB
Page File Space 5.50 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

 

[Adrian]

Hi everyone

I installed 6 GB of ram today and at first it only showed 2 GB usable memory then I tweaked around with the settings and got it up to 5.5 GB

How can I get it to its full capacity 6GB ?

my motherboard I think does not support memory mapping and I re-installed the OS Win 7 64bit but still shows 5.5 GB

thx for the help in advance

Welcome to Windows 7 support forum.
Lamboss, your stats are correct.
Your operating system and services and startup programs consume a small amount of resident ram. For further info go to search, type "sysinfo" and all your basic stats will be displayed.
For further info consult the posted image.

Regards, and happy holidays.
Adrian

 

[lamboss]

alri thank you

 

[pallesenw]

Correct or not ... that is a matter of definition. If you don't have gfx with shared memory or such, you have 0.5 GB of RAM sitting there doing nothing. It is of no use to you.

What motherboard do you have, and what does BIOS display?

 

[pallesenw]

M2N-SLI Deluxe ... about the missing memory remap feature, have you checked for a more recent bios version?

 

[lamboss]

yes I checked and there is a new bios available so should I update it ?

 

[lamboss]

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

 

[Adrian]

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

Merry Christmas LAmboss, what is freezing?
This comes after the reflash?

 

[Adrian]

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.

 

[lamboss]

nope i didn back it up lol

yes its kinda lagging and it froze up but i reloaded the setup defaults and its working for now . Havent really checked it troughly after I reloaded the setup defaults

 

[mpcrsc562]

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: http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/48304-only-2-5-gigs-ram-64-bit.html

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

 

[lamboss]

thx for the help mpcrsc562 but I managed to get the full 6gb back as usable when I updated the bios

 

[mpcrsc562]

cool.

 

[pallesenw]

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

Unless you have hardware that uses shared memory, there should be about zero reserved for the hardware if there is enough address space for all of it.