Ram

[Guest]

Hello everyone, my computer has 128mb or ram but it is only running at 112mb.
How can i fix it so that it runs at 128mb?

 

[Guest]

Your RAM may be shared with your video card. It's probably your video card
that is pulling the extra 16MB.

 

[Bob I]

How much is allocated to the video, 16 meg?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Hello everyone, my computer has 128mb or ram but it is only running
at 112mb. How can i fix it so that it runs at 128mb?

Your computer undoubtedly has video support built into the motherboard
rather than having a separate video card. That video support is using 16MB
of your system RAM. You can't fix it, other than by buying a separate
stand-alone video card and turining off the on-board supprt (if you
motherboard lets you do this).

However it doesn't really matter. Your problem, which you didn't state, is
undoubtedly that performance is very poor, and that's because either 128MB
or 112MB is way to little to run Windows XP adequately. What you need for
decent performance is not another 16MB, but another 128MB or more.

Buy more RAM.

 

[Jim]

If it's a laptop, or a cheap PC, this is normal. Some machines share
their regular RAM with the graphics accelerator to cut costs.

So 128 MB RAM - 16 MB RAM for video = 112 MB RAM free.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

You did not specify more details about your PC. Without this, any suggestion
will only be "general recommendation'.

You best bet is to add more RAM to your PC, if possible! With 128MB (112mb)
it is barely able to do its normal processing. By add another 128MB to your
system, you will notice improvements.