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Why is Vista showing only 3 Gb memory when 4 Gb is installed?



 
 
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Old January 30th 07, 09:19 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
Colin Barnhorst
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Default Why is Vista showing only 3 Gb memory when 4 Gb is installed?

4GB, all things being equal. The system will leverage it for you.

"F r e e" wrote in message
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"Colin Barnhorst"


hi Colin, i have been reading you and others here with great satisfaction,
and now i have a question:

What is the ideal maximum RAM in Vista 32bits? Does 4G make sense? Or,
p.e. 3 G would be more reasonable?

And... isn't 4 G becoming fastly a very low limit (nowadays everybody
edits videos etc)



Thanks in advance!

f r e e





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Old January 31st 07, 07:47 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
F r e e
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Default Why is Vista showing only 3 Gb memory when 4 Gb is installed?

ok thank you!

"Colin Barnhorst" escribió en el mensaje
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4GB, all things being equal. The system will leverage it for you.

"F r e e" wrote in message
...

"Colin Barnhorst"


hi Colin, i have been reading you and others here with great
satisfaction, and now i have a question:

What is the ideal maximum RAM in Vista 32bits? Does 4G make sense? Or,
p.e. 3 G would be more reasonable?

And... isn't 4 G becoming fastly a very low limit (nowadays everybody
edits videos etc)



Thanks in advance!

f r e e







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Old February 10th 07, 02:16 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
studio
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Default Why is Vista showing only 3 Gb memory when 4 Gb is installed?

I am not an expert ( but I read many posts & then did this )
& the issues was fixed 1st try... !! : ' )
enter Bios
Advance chipset features
memory hole for PCI MMIO
enable feature!

this feature is to remap to address above 4G of ram

its all there now!

"Stan Kay" wrote:

I have an ASUS P5B Deluxe motherboard and four 1 Gb sticks of CorsairTwinX
XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 memory and am runing version 6000 of Windows vista
Ultimate. The bios reports that I have 4 Gb of memory but after the O/S has
booted it reports only 3 Gb of memory. Moreover, when I run msinfo32 it
reports that I have:-

Total Physical Memory: 4,096.00 Mb
Available Physical Memory: 2.28 Gb
Total Virtual Memory: 2.00 Gb
Available Virtual Memory: 1.96 Gb

Can anyone please offer an explanation for this discrepancy and a view on
whether I will be able to use all of my memory rather than only 75% of it?



 




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