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Accessing More RAM
I had two 512MB RAM's in my pc in dual channel 128bit mode, but upgrading to
windows vista hp meant i needed more ram. So i've put in 2 Corsair 1GB Ram's, which is also running in the dual chanel 128bit mode. The motherboard recognises the two Ram's and their total capacity of 2048MB but in Windows Vista, it only says there is 1GB of ram (1023MB to be exact), and the task manager says there is only 1GB available, what should I do, can anyone help? |
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does your mother send or uses ram for the video graphic card?
-- Jonathan Perreault Personnal Advice To You: #1: Do Not Undermine Windows's Work, Or It'll Undermine You As A User. #2: Torture Windows (Any) Now Before It Tortures You Best Comments From Users: No Matter The Problem Even With Linux, It's Microsoft's And Windows's Faults A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. "Peter" wrote in message news I had two 512MB RAM's in my pc in dual channel 128bit mode, but upgrading to windows vista hp meant i needed more ram. So i've put in 2 Corsair 1GB Ram's, which is also running in the dual chanel 128bit mode. The motherboard recognises the two Ram's and their total capacity of 2048MB but in Windows Vista, it only says there is 1GB of ram (1023MB to be exact), and the task manager says there is only 1GB available, what should I do, can anyone help? |
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my appologies i meant mother board not your mother, i don't remember being
drunk but i never though i wrote that -- Jonathan Perreault Personnal Advice To You: #1: Do Not Undermine Windows's Work, Or It'll Undermine You As A User. #2: Torture Windows (Any) Now Before It Tortures You Best Comments From Users: No Matter The Problem Even With Linux, It's Microsoft's And Windows's Faults A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. "jonathan perreault" wrote in message ... does your mother send or uses ram for the video graphic card? -- Jonathan Perreault Personnal Advice To You: #1: Do Not Undermine Windows's Work, Or It'll Undermine You As A User. #2: Torture Windows (Any) Now Before It Tortures You Best Comments From Users: No Matter The Problem Even With Linux, It's Microsoft's And Windows's Faults A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. "Peter" wrote in message news I had two 512MB RAM's in my pc in dual channel 128bit mode, but upgrading to windows vista hp meant i needed more ram. So i've put in 2 Corsair 1GB Ram's, which is also running in the dual chanel 128bit mode. The motherboard recognises the two Ram's and their total capacity of 2048MB but in Windows Vista, it only says there is 1GB of ram (1023MB to be exact), and the task manager says there is only 1GB available, what should I do, can anyone help? |
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Thats alright :P I understood what you meant. The answer is no, ther's no shared memory, or at least there isn't supposed to be, my graphics card has 512MB of it's own, unless windows vista is allocating it an extra 1GB?? That would be odd, can i check/stop it? "jonathan perreault" wrote: my appologies i meant mother board not your mother, i don't remember being drunk but i never though i wrote that -- Jonathan Perreault Personnal Advice To You: #1: Do Not Undermine Windows's Work, Or It'll Undermine You As A User. #2: Torture Windows (Any) Now Before It Tortures You Best Comments From Users: No Matter The Problem Even With Linux, It's Microsoft's And Windows's Faults A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. "jonathan perreault" wrote in message ... does your mother send or uses ram for the video graphic card? -- Jonathan Perreault Personnal Advice To You: #1: Do Not Undermine Windows's Work, Or It'll Undermine You As A User. #2: Torture Windows (Any) Now Before It Tortures You Best Comments From Users: No Matter The Problem Even With Linux, It's Microsoft's And Windows's Faults A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. "Peter" wrote in message news I had two 512MB RAM's in my pc in dual channel 128bit mode, but upgrading to windows vista hp meant i needed more ram. So i've put in 2 Corsair 1GB Ram's, which is also running in the dual chanel 128bit mode. The motherboard recognises the two Ram's and their total capacity of 2048MB but in Windows Vista, it only says there is 1GB of ram (1023MB to be exact), and the task manager says there is only 1GB available, what should I do, can anyone help? |
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Accessing More RAM
Sometimes BIOS has option that defines if the OS is PnP aware or not. Maybe you should turn this option off, so Windows will rely on BIOS data. -- Sulev Svilponis |
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what sulev said sound good, you appear to be using desktop so i don't really
know, why all i know is windows is so different between computers that laptop and desktop behave differently to the same information, basically other thatn the bios settings or the fact that vista can be greedy sometimes i don't really know -- Jonathan Perreault Personnal Advice To You: #1: Do Not Undermine Windows's Work, Or It'll Undermine You As A User. #2: Torture Windows (Any) Now Before It Tortures You Best Comments From Users: No Matter The Problem Even With Linux, It's Microsoft's And Windows's Faults A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. "Peter" wrote in message ... Thats alright :P I understood what you meant. The answer is no, ther's no shared memory, or at least there isn't supposed to be, my graphics card has 512MB of it's own, unless windows vista is allocating it an extra 1GB?? That would be odd, can i check/stop it? "jonathan perreault" wrote: my appologies i meant mother board not your mother, i don't remember being drunk but i never though i wrote that -- Jonathan Perreault Personnal Advice To You: #1: Do Not Undermine Windows's Work, Or It'll Undermine You As A User. #2: Torture Windows (Any) Now Before It Tortures You Best Comments From Users: No Matter The Problem Even With Linux, It's Microsoft's And Windows's Faults A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. "jonathan perreault" wrote in message ... does your mother send or uses ram for the video graphic card? -- Jonathan Perreault Personnal Advice To You: #1: Do Not Undermine Windows's Work, Or It'll Undermine You As A User. #2: Torture Windows (Any) Now Before It Tortures You Best Comments From Users: No Matter The Problem Even With Linux, It's Microsoft's And Windows's Faults A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. "Peter" wrote in message news I had two 512MB RAM's in my pc in dual channel 128bit mode, but upgrading to windows vista hp meant i needed more ram. So i've put in 2 Corsair 1GB Ram's, which is also running in the dual chanel 128bit mode. The motherboard recognises the two Ram's and their total capacity of 2048MB but in Windows Vista, it only says there is 1GB of ram (1023MB to be exact), and the task manager says there is only 1GB available, what should I do, can anyone help? |
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AFAIK Vista tests the memory and requires that all memory be running at the
same speed so if you have different memory speeds put the slower memory in slots 1 and 3 and if that does not solve the problem look in your BIOS for a way to insure that all memory is running at the same speed. "jonathan perreault" wrote in message ... what sulev said sound good, you appear to be using desktop so i don't really know, why all i know is windows is so different between computers that laptop and desktop behave differently to the same information, basically other thatn the bios settings or the fact that vista can be greedy sometimes i don't really know -- Jonathan Perreault Personnal Advice To You: #1: Do Not Undermine Windows's Work, Or It'll Undermine You As A User. #2: Torture Windows (Any) Now Before It Tortures You Best Comments From Users: No Matter The Problem Even With Linux, It's Microsoft's And Windows's Faults A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. "Peter" wrote in message ... Thats alright :P I understood what you meant. The answer is no, ther's no shared memory, or at least there isn't supposed to be, my graphics card has 512MB of it's own, unless windows vista is allocating it an extra 1GB?? That would be odd, can i check/stop it? "jonathan perreault" wrote: my appologies i meant mother board not your mother, i don't remember being drunk but i never though i wrote that -- Jonathan Perreault Personnal Advice To You: #1: Do Not Undermine Windows's Work, Or It'll Undermine You As A User. #2: Torture Windows (Any) Now Before It Tortures You Best Comments From Users: No Matter The Problem Even With Linux, It's Microsoft's And Windows's Faults A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. "jonathan perreault" wrote in message ... does your mother send or uses ram for the video graphic card? -- Jonathan Perreault Personnal Advice To You: #1: Do Not Undermine Windows's Work, Or It'll Undermine You As A User. #2: Torture Windows (Any) Now Before It Tortures You Best Comments From Users: No Matter The Problem Even With Linux, It's Microsoft's And Windows's Faults A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. "Peter" wrote in message news I had two 512MB RAM's in my pc in dual channel 128bit mode, but upgrading to windows vista hp meant i needed more ram. So i've put in 2 Corsair 1GB Ram's, which is also running in the dual chanel 128bit mode. The motherboard recognises the two Ram's and their total capacity of 2048MB but in Windows Vista, it only says there is 1GB of ram (1023MB to be exact), and the task manager says there is only 1GB available, what should I do, can anyone help? |
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If you are mixing memory speeds be sure to put the SLOWER MEMORY in so it is
active LAST. It is possible that Vista will not allow the memory if there is too much of a speed difference. "Peter" wrote in message news I had two 512MB RAM's in my pc in dual channel 128bit mode, but upgrading to windows vista hp meant i needed more ram. So i've put in 2 Corsair 1GB Ram's, which is also running in the dual chanel 128bit mode. The motherboard recognises the two Ram's and their total capacity of 2048MB but in Windows Vista, it only says there is 1GB of ram (1023MB to be exact), and the task manager says there is only 1GB available, what should I do, can anyone help? |