Hi I have recently ran a test on my computer that indicated that I have 2 sticks of 512 mb meaning the ram on my computer must be 1024 mb right? Bull****. I go to check on properties on my computer and it says 768 mb. What is the problem here? I tried to put the sticks in again but it's the same. Please help me.
2007-12-16 14:31:41 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Omg these are all good answers but damn. I'm trying to buy a new graphics card called ASUS EN8400GS 256MB PCI-E but I'm not sure how my computer will handle it. Is this gonna leech off the motherboard's RAM too? Cuz in that case, I'll add 2 GB of ram. I'm trying to have a computer to play some games with. ( I currently have a Nvidia GeForce 6100 nForce 405 and apparently, its approx total memory is 378 MB. I don't know how it'll help but w/e :) )
2007-12-16 15:05:00 · update #1
Chances are that your computer has integrated graphics instead of a separate graphics card. A graphics card has its own RAM and does not need to use the motherbroad's RAM. However, if you have integrated graphics, graphics is built in to the motherboard and shares its [motherboard] RAM, which explains why your computer only displays 768MB of RAM. The other 256MB is being used by the integrated graphics.
2007-12-16 14:40:56 · answer #1 · answered by What the...?!? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason it only shows 768 is that a certain amount of your ram is used for the programs running on windows. What is left is the amount you have to run your games and whatever else you are doing on line. Its the same as your hard drive. When you check that out or redo your computer a certain amount of your hard drive is taken up for your windows operating system, the same goes for your ram. You still have 1024 but only 768 is available as windows uses some to run its system. I also have noticed that on my computer when i up dated my ram. Hope this helps some I also found this online. hope it helps In most modern operating systems, including Windows, application programs and many system processes always reference memory using virtual memory addresses which are automatically translated to real (RAM) addresses by the hardware. Only core parts of the operating system kernel bypass this address translation and use real memory addresses directly. The virtual memory management component of the operating system maintains the tables used by the hardware to provide the mapping of virtual addresses into real addresses. A small amount of RAM is used by those parts of the operating system that can not be paged out (for example, the virtual memory manager) and is thus not available for assignment to virtual memory.
The key point here is that Virtual Memory is always in use, even when the memory required by all running processes does not exceed the amount of RAM installed on the system.
2007-12-16 22:47:59 · answer #2 · answered by Sharie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You probably have a crap video card that uses system RAM instead of real RAM. Does your video card claim to have 256MB of RAM ?
2007-12-16 22:35:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is your video card using 256MB of RAM?
2007-12-16 22:44:26 · answer #4 · answered by SANDY 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do a search for a free program called memtest 86+....it installs onto a floppy disk....set your pc to boot from a floppy and then run that test......it will tell you the amount of memory you have among other things and it will test your memory to see if there are any problems with it
2007-12-16 22:37:47 · answer #5 · answered by Hugh_G_Rection 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could be your video card. some video cards consume your memory. Check your video card to be sure. Is it on-boad?
Good luck!
2007-12-16 22:36:36 · answer #6 · answered by BomBet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋