Physical Memory misreported

[Guest]

I have an Asus A8N-SLi Deluxe mobo, 4 GB of OCZ PC3200 and Windows XP Pro
SP1. The mobo reports the amount of physical memory correctly. XP System
Information and two utilities (Everest Home and Aida32) report 2.75 GB of
physical memory.

Any ideas?

 

[Jim Macklin]

Have you checked the ASUS website/mobo manual for details of
the RAM assignments?

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|I have an Asus A8N-SLi Deluxe mobo, 4 GB of OCZ PC3200 and
Windows XP Pro
| SP1. The mobo reports the amount of physical memory
correctly. XP System
| Information and two utilities (Everest Home and Aida32)
report 2.75 GB of
| physical memory.
|
| Any ideas?

 

[Yves Leclerc]

XP has a special boot flag which tells it that it should use 4Gb of RAM (I
do not know this flag -- I have 1GB only!)

Then, if you are using on-board (on the motherboard) video card, there is
also a portion reserved for the video card's memory.

 

[Guest]

Thank you for the response, Yves.

It's not a video issue as I'm using a "dual PCI" setup. I know there is a
PAE switch one can put in the boot.ini file, but as I understand it that
tells Windows how to allocate memory to programs and not how it reports the
physical memory. I could be wrong, however.

Any more info that folks have would be appreciated. Thank you!

 

[Guest]

Thank you for the response, Jim. I did indeed check those and there was no
joy there... not unlike trying to get information from "Bill and Company"
without paying for it. ;-)