Missing RAM

[Guest]

Dear all,

We bought a new Dell PC recently. The memory is 4.0GB DDR SDRAM. We can see '4GB memory' shown in BIOS. But from Windows XP, it shows 3.6GB Memory. Does anybody know why we lose about a half GB memory? What can we do to make good use of the maximum memory?

Thank you.

 

[Joe]

Some of your RAM is shared by the system. It can include the Bios, and Video
Memory to other resources. As the screen boots hit the pause key when it
does a memory count and it should say shared memory.

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Thanks
Joe Chiacchio
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Dear all,

We bought a new Dell PC recently. The memory is 4.0GB DDR SDRAM. We can

see '4GB memory' shown in BIOS. But from Windows XP, it shows 3.6GB Memory.
Does anybody know why we lose about a half GB memory? What can we do to
make good use of the maximum memory?