My 4gb of ram is only showing as 2558mb

BaileyB

Hi,

I'm on Vista 32 bit and had 4 gb of ram installed. I know the 32 bit had an issue of only seeing the 2.99gb. But the SP1 download covered this and i could see the 4gb.

I just installed a new graphics card and looked at the system details to see that my pc was only seeing 2558 of it. I took them out and put them back in but still the same.

If it was an issue with the 32 bit it would have gone back to 2.99gb and not 2.58gb. I have 4x1gb sticks installed so dont even know where the .58 has come from. (1024x2+512=2560)

Any ideas what could be causing this?

Thanks

Dime_Bar

The graphic card memory will be using some of the visible 2.99GB I am guessing yo have a 512MB card?

DatabaseError

^ +1


...
post too short

CHR15

I agree. You could confirm that be playing about with them fitting 2 at a time.

There will always be a bit less anyway even taking into account the Graphics due to memory addressing

Leopard

Upon the subject of usable memory, you may find THIS helpful.

In particular, the paragraph entitled "The great PC RAM swindle".

But all of it is interesting. As, indeed, are the other articles in that series.

BaileyB

Ah thats where its gone.

But any idea why the 4gb is not seen as that, i know the 32 bit could only see 3gb but the Sp1 download pack was to fix this.

DatabaseError

so the new 64 bit apple OS supports more than 4 gig...er as does vista64 (which is why I have 4 gig)
Was there a point in there somewhere (besides Dell sell E-peen)

You want a "great ram swindle" consider the cost of 4 gig of apple ram vs 4 gig of PC stuff

flashy

is your on board graphics chip using some of these memory resources?

Are your DDR Chips running in mirror or anything? ahve you installed matching pairs of sticks?

CHR15

Have a look in Control Panel => Performance Information and Tools => Advanced Tools => View Advanced system details in System Information

Or click RUN and type Msinfo32.exe

You should see your Installed RAM listed without all the overheads (4GB)

Marty_J

DatabaseError wrote: »

You want a "great ram swindle" consider the cost of 4 gig of apple ram vs 4 gig of PC stuff

There's no such thing as "Apple RAM" aside from RAM that is purchased from Apple (which you'd have to have more money than sense to do).

Leopard

DatabaseError wrote: »

so the new 64 bit apple OS supports more than 4 gig...er as does vista64 (which is why I have 4 gig)
Was there a point in there somewhere (besides Dell sell E-peen)

You want a "great ram swindle" consider the cost of 4 gig of apple ram vs 4 gig of PC stuff

I would commend to you reading the whole article properly and objectively. And the others in that series.

(Preferably over a pint of Sam Smith's :beer: )

I think you have missed the point being made in it in regard to the reporting of usable RAM.


No Mac user, incidentally, would buy RAM from Apple. We buy it from Crucial, like everyone else. :money:

Apple's quoted prices for RAM are just to assist Mac users making insurance claims on a new-for-old policy after an accident. Apple is kind like that.