on second computer i have had it has 2 gigs installed and working just fine. on the comp im having trouble with i tried re seating the ram and still only showing up and 448 mb well in the bios it sees it as the full 512 mb so someone help me here
2007-03-26 08:01:42 · 10 answers · asked by zantanjian 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
its probably fried or something my the thing isthe part that windows sees the ram is the amount installed windows is saying I have 448 mb installed instead of 512 well ibought another ram stick to try it out to see if its the motherboard slot or ram.
2007-03-26 08:12:15 · update #1
thats explains alot i have nvidia geforce 7300 installed on the computer with 2 gigs of ram then the other one with integrated video
2007-03-26 08:15:01 · update #2
The reason for ordering the extra ram is that half a gig of ram is not enough for alot of the games i play so its not really a waste of money
2007-03-26 08:18:55 · update #3
Computer's with the graphics accelerator integrated into the motherboard usually utilize a chunk of the system's memory for the exclusive use of the graphics accelerator. Programs and the operating system do not have access to this memory so it is subtracted from the total displayed by windows, and on the post screens during system startup. You can verify that this is the cause by going into system setup and looking for "Shared Video Memory" or something similar. You will see it is set to 64MB which is exactly what you are missing from your 512.
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MacChien
2007-03-26 08:10:29 · answer #1 · answered by macchien 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Thats easy, 512-448 = 64MB, a nice round computer number, that should give you a tip. You are using the on-board graphics adapter and it has 64 MB vram right ... well not quite. This situation is call shared memory, basically during boot when your GFX card is initialized it reserves 64 MB of your system ram for its exclusive use. This ram is then not available nor listed by any OS, be it windows or Linux. This ram can be freed only if you have a add on GFX card, that has on board VRAM. If so then you can simply go into your CMOS (bios) setup and disable the on-board GFX card and its shared memory. The the ram will not be reserved and you will see it in the OS.
2007-03-26 08:20:11 · answer #2 · answered by dna man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you order another stick, you're wasting your money, there's nothing wrong with it. RAM either works or it doesn't, it's not "fried". People telling you that have no idea what they're talking about and have no business answering questions on this forum!
As has already been mentioned, a portion of your system ram is dedicated to your onboard graphics chip because that chip doesn't have its own memory and must use system memory. Why do you think it's an even 64MB? It's because you have 64MB allocated to video.
2007-03-26 08:16:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I noticed stuff like that too!One time I wiggled it while off and it bumped it back up.Its usually caused from worn connections (I think ).Really aint that big of a deal !!!Could be the connection points on either the ram or the board.Or just worn ram!!!
2007-03-26 08:07:54 · answer #4 · answered by solidchevyman 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
what's your computing gadget specs you will possibly desire to function extra info ???? with the exception of ram it relies upon on A) your motherboard B) proccesor C) photograph card D) HDD all and sundry of those issues are needed to run any os effectively with speedy overall performance
2016-10-20 12:04:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes if you have on board video (basically, if you don't have a separate video card) some of your RAM is allocated to your video.
2007-03-26 08:11:03 · answer #6 · answered by dark_crystal_shard 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, for the first place your computer is reading the 448mb becaue of your xp program, it runds a lot of memory...
and plus ur system progrmas and files..
2007-03-26 08:10:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Allocation is the word, my man. Windows requires a percentage of memory be allocated directly for it's own use.
2007-03-26 08:06:06 · answer #8 · answered by ark 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the reason why youre seeing 448 because some of it was aready used for your computer use itself...
2007-03-26 08:04:40 · answer #9 · answered by Chay 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
One of the ram stick may have gotten fried.
2007-03-26 08:04:59 · answer #10 · answered by Linds 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋