2007-01-23 03:52:30 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
More than likely you have an onboard graphics card that is using 16MB of the RAM for Graphics Memory. This is considered to be "Shared".
If you are running XP, I STRONGLY recommend you buy more RAM. XP will run much better with 500 MB or so.
2007-01-23 04:00:17 · answer #1 · answered by lwcomputing 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's because the computer always reserves a certain amount of ram for system process. It will never show all the physical ram that you have installed.
If you need more I would seriously sugggest getting more. Now a days you need at least 500 to run anything recent.
2007-01-23 11:56:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because of the way a computer organizes data on ram (or on a hard drive, for that matter), a little bit of space is lost. That is completely natural and isn't something to be worried about. All computers do it.
2007-01-23 11:56:11 · answer #3 · answered by Chip 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
This is a genuine problem, because rest 16 MB has been used for graphics. You can check it from BIOS. 16 MB is graphics shared memory.
2007-01-23 12:00:39 · answer #4 · answered by kamal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The other 16 MB's, the computer uses it.
2007-01-23 11:56:41 · answer #5 · answered by Aydiid A 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋