Correct RAM?

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I have 3072 MB of ram installed and this is confirmed by another program I
have running on Vista. When booting up or looking at the properties in My
Computer Vista says I have 2943 MB installed. What is the problem?
 
128 meg of on-board video RAM subtracted from your initial total?

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OT said:
I have 3072 MB of ram installed and this is confirmed by another
program I have running on Vista. When booting up or looking at the
properties in My Computer Vista says I have 2943 MB installed. What
is the problem?
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The small evil microsoft pixies that came with vista took away 128mb during
the night.

They take it all back to Richmond where they are building a supercomputer
with a planned 100M TB of RAM - which is just enough to run Vista Ultimate
smoothly with Aero.

;-)

PS - Not really.... what the dudes said above.
 
Brownz (Mobile) said:
The small evil microsoft pixies that came with vista took away 128mb
during the night.

They take it all back to Richmond where they are building a supercomputer
with a planned 100M TB of RAM - which is just enough to run Vista Ultimate
smoothly with Aero.

;-)

PS - Not really.... what the dudes said above.
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Now that's funny! But there might be a little truth in it too :)

Chris
 
I have a 256mb ATI video card installed on my system. Vista will still take
an additional 129 for the integrated chip?
 
Anando said:
In that case, the extra 128 MB is being shared with the video adapters
integrated memory. There should be an option in your BIOS to disable this.
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Thanks for the help. I have looked over the BIOS and I don't seem to see
what I am looking for. What would it be under? I did notice when I
rebooted that the message "memory consumed by system resources 128mb." is
displayed. I have recently upgraded to 3gb and this never appeared when I
only had 1gb.
 
OT said:
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Hello,
The rest of it (129 MB) is taken up by the integrated graphics chip
on your system.
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OT wrote:
I have a 256mb ATI video card installed on my system. Vista will
still take an additional 129 for the integrated chip?[/QUOTE]

Aye, HyperMemory Technology with AMD/ATI Cards, and TurboCache Technology
with Nvidia Cards.

Google it for a few answers.
 
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