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Drewpee

Hi I have a self built machine with an ASUS P5B M/B which can take up to 8Mg
RAM. I currently have 4 1Mg sticks on M/B but system only shows 3007 Mg.
Running Intel core 2 CPU [email protected] Ghz 1.86 Ghz and Vista Ultimate.

Thanx in advance drewpee
 
Drewpee said:
Hi I have a self built machine with an ASUS P5B M/B which can take up to
8Mg RAM. I currently have 4 1Mg sticks on M/B but system only shows 3007
Mg. Running Intel core 2 CPU [email protected] Ghz 1.86 Ghz and Vista Ultimate.

Thanx in advance drewpee
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And you would be running the x86 32-bit version of Vista?
If so see the myriad of posts that explain why a 32-but system may not "see"
all of 4GB of memory if installed.
 
And not seeing means vista does not make use of 4gb or does it mean it will
only visually ignore it?
 
exciter said:
And not seeing means vista does not make use of 4gb or does it mean it
will
only visually ignore it?
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The RAM may be used by BIOS caching or shadowing the video memory or by
providing shared video memory.
This has all been covered many times over in this newsgroup - please search
for relevant posts.
 
Drewpee said:
Hi I have a self built machine with an ASUS P5B M/B which can take up to
8Mg RAM. I currently have 4 1Mg sticks on M/B but system only shows 3007
Mg. Running Intel core 2 CPU [email protected] Ghz 1.86 Ghz and Vista Ultimate.

Thanx in advance drewpee
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Hi Drewpee. I would be willing to bet that you have a 32 bit version of
Vista loaded on that machine along with an integrated video card. Am I
right? If so, that's where your extra ram went. 32 bit OSes only
recognize ~3.x GB of memory, and if you have an integrated video card it
is most likely using some of your system ram.

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Hi Drewpee. I would be willing to bet that you have a 32 bit version of
Vista loaded on that machine along with an integrated video card. Am I
right? If so, that's where your extra ram went. 32 bit OSes only
recognize ~3.x GB of memory, and if you have an integrated video card it
is most likely using some of your system ram.
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Not quite true. 32 bit Linux can handle up to 64gb.
 
ray said:
Not quite true. 32 bit Linux can handle up to 64gb.
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Fair enough. I was actually referring to windows OSes. I guess I
assumed it was implied since this is a vista newsgroup.

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"Fair use is not merely a nice concept--it is a federal law based on
free speech rights under the First Amendment and is a cornerstone of the
creativity and innovation that is a hallmark of this country. Consumer
rights in the digital age are not frivolous."
- Maura Corbett
 
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