What Vista showing incorrect memory allocation?

[Boaby]

Hello folks,

I have Vista 64 with 4 gigabytes of memory. Vista shows that I have 4
gigabytes of memory in the system properties and welcome screen but my
Winver command and the Task Manager displays that I have only 2.7 gigabytes
of memory? I recently installed a Radeon 3870 HD 1 GB graphics card. Could
my GPU could be eating up the rest of the memory. My motherboard is a DFI
Lan Party UT NF4 Ultra D. I am fairly certain it has the latest BIOS
firmware. I am confused.

Any ideas?

Boaby

 

[Frank]

a 32 bit OS without PAE can address only maximum theoretical 4 gb ram,
however each hardware attached must use some memory space of those 4 gbs,
not that the hardware actually uses the ram you have installed, but it
needs to allocate the memory space since it cannot go beyond the 4 gigs,
it must "eat up" some of the memory space that the OS would address

the more ram the display adaptor has the more memory from the 4 gigs the
display adaptor must allocate...

your solution is to switch to a 64 bit version of XP or Vista

hehehe...you're out of control capin' crunch. The op already stated that
he has Vista 64!
Settle down! Take a break...talk to the clown in the cubicle next to you
(he's not the who keeps knocking you off your chair is he?)...LOL!
Frank

 

[Boaby]

Thanks for the reply. My Vista Ultimate is 64 bit. I am using a AMD 64 X2
Processor. My motherboard advised on the manual can handle 4 gigabytes of
memory. So my solution is not to switch to a 64 bit OS's which I have
already have. Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Boaby