Windows 7 Memory

[riotkayak284]

I have Win7 x64 installed and like it very much. I have a question. I have 5 gigs of RAM in my machine, but Windows reports 4 gigs as usable. Is this normal? is that meaning the OP system is taking a 1 gig for itself? I included a screenshot to help.

 

[DarkXeno]

Welcome to SF.
Do you have a onboard video card? Cause if you do you might have 1gig shared video this option would be found inside your BIOS.
And can you fill out your Systems Specs in your UserCP with will help us answer your question.

 

[The Sly Assassin]

Ok, i had this problem, only way i could fix it, was a fresh install and NEVER run the WEI test, because its the one that changes W7 to say xx.GB (xx.xx useable), at some stage, the WEI automatically runs, and calculates the scores, but didnt change the ram amount.

 

[riotkayak284]

New Install

This is a new install that I did 2 nights ago. How did you keep the WEI from running? This is a definite bug in the system.

 

[The Sly Assassin]

i just didnt run the WEI test, at some stage it will run by itself, you wont even know, but it will give u a score, but not give you the xx.xxgb ram (xxgb useable) , just says 4gb, or in your case 5gb.

 

[Vipermk2]

I have 8Gb and I'm using about 1/5

 

[bigseb]

Ok, i had this problem, only way i could fix it, was a fresh install and NEVER run the WEI test, because its the one that changes W7 to say xx.GB (xx.xx useable), at some stage, the WEI automatically runs, and calculates the scores, but didnt change the ram amount.

Interesting... anyway to fix this WITHOUT doing a fresh install?... that would be ace...

 

[The Sly Assassin]

I dont think so mate, unless there's a file or registry key holding the information somewhere that can be easily edited, to display what its supposed to display, other then that simple answer is unfortunatly no.

 

[bigseb]

I dont think so mate, unless there's a file or registry key holding the information somewhere that can be easily edited, to display what its supposed to display, other then that simple answer is unfortunatly no.

Sounds like a major fail on MS's part... I can't afford to spend a day reinstalling everything simply cos WEI decides to do what it wants... There must be a way...

 

[The Sly Assassin]

If there is, id like to hear it, i reckon there is a file holding the info, but i dont have several spare hours to go looking for it.

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

Well I had the exact same problem.. well aside from the amounts.

I have 4GB RAM and it said (2.91GB usable).. after a day or so a friend suggested to open MSconfig go to the 'Boot' tab, click advanced option and uncheck 'maximum memory'.

Just thought I'd pass that along.

 

[zigzag3143]

memory question

I have Win7 x64 installed and like it very much. I have a question. I have 5 gigs of RAM in my machine, but Windows reports 4 gigs as usable. Is this normal? is that meaning the OP system is taking a 1 gig for itself? I included a screenshot to help.

How does one get 5 gigs in ram? 2+2+1?

Ken

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

How does one get 5 gigs in ram? 2+2+1?

Ken

or 4+1, 4+512mb+512mb, could go on for a while =P

Psssst Zig's the friend that suggested it to me btw =)

 

[The Sly Assassin]

haha, theres many combinations, and he may be right on this, im not sure tho, because setting the memory to maximum, is one of the first things i do even before i even go looking to see what my ram is.

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

haha, theres many combinations, and he may be right on this, im not sure tho, because setting the memory to maximum, is one of the first things i do even before i even go looking to see what my ram is.

Eh.. I have no clue why it did it, but i set my max memory for 4096 (4gb) and ever reboot it set itself to 0 instead of 4096.

After unchecking it, it didn't say (2.91GB usable) anymore =P therefore I consider it a fix =D

 

[The Sly Assassin]

This could be what we are all after! :O:O:O, i hope so

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

This could be what we are all after! :O:O:O, i hope so

Could be, may have just been a bug with the combo of my hardware and W7 though. Well if anyone has this problem feel free to pass it along. Never hurts to try.

 

[The Sly Assassin]

agreed, but whatever ya do, don't run WEI, will kill it.

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

agreed, but whatever ya do, don't run WEI, will kill it.

I ran WEI after and it still is at 4GB.

 

[The Sly Assassin]

ohh? hmm, because every time i run WEI after fixing it, it goes back to BS Readings. :S