Only 2.25GB Usable?

[LenBum]

I have an Acer Aspire laptop with 2.5GB of Ram. System properties lists the 2.5GB of ram but only 2.25GB usable. I had Vista on this laptop without this conflict. The bios settings are very basic, nothing that looks like it has to be changed. The only difference that I see is Vista was 32 bit and Windows 7 is 64 bit.

 

[Uber Philf]

W7 comes in both x86 and x64 forms, usually the ram amount that is missing is used by the graphics card, and is not counted as RAM.

Enzo.

 

[scaramonga]

Do you notice a performance drop with 256Mb RAM missing?

 

[LenBum]

I don't notice any performance difference. But in doing some research it very well may be my video card. I have a Geforce 9800GTX that itself only has 512mb of memory.

 

[Uber Philf]

How much ram *Should* it be displaying? aka, how much physical ram do you have?

Enzo.

 

[LenBum]

Like it says in my original post, 2.5gb of ram are installed.

 

[darkassain]

which model is it?
there are some laptops with the memory capped to either 4gb, 3gb and so on
and was this vista x86 SP1?
as it should show the same thing as win 7 (total ram with total usable...)

 

[Uber Philf]

Not sure mate, youve done a fresh install correct?
Usually this solves the problem.

Enzo.

 

[CheechQ107]

i have 2x 7950gtx2's and 4 gig of mem installed on win 7 64 bit. it says 4 gig but 2.25 useable

 

[Tews]

Check your BIOS for max ram usage....

 

[CheechQ107]

memory

i dont want to sound too dumb, but i dont know on bios what im looking for in the memory bit. never had this prob in the free version of win 7 64. ive never had to change anything other than booting drives and enable quad sli....