What Vista showing incorrect memory allocation?

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Boaby

Hello folks,

I have Vista 64 with 4 gigabytes of memory. Vista shows that I have 4
gigabytes of memory in the system properties and welcome screen but my
Winver command and the Task Manager displays that I have only 2.7 gigabytes
of memory? I recently installed a Radeon 3870 HD 1 GB graphics card. Could
my GPU could be eating up the rest of the memory. My motherboard is a DFI
Lan Party UT NF4 Ultra D. I am fairly certain it has the latest BIOS
firmware. I am confused.

Any ideas?

Boaby
 
Clear said:
a 32 bit OS without PAE can address only maximum theoretical 4 gb ram,
however each hardware attached must use some memory space of those 4 gbs,
not that the hardware actually uses the ram you have installed, but it
needs to allocate the memory space since it cannot go beyond the 4 gigs,
it must "eat up" some of the memory space that the OS would address

the more ram the display adaptor has the more memory from the 4 gigs the
display adaptor must allocate...

your solution is to switch to a 64 bit version of XP or Vista
Click to expand...

hehehe...you're out of control capin' crunch. The op already stated that
he has Vista 64!
Settle down! Take a break...talk to the clown in the cubicle next to you
(he's not the who keeps knocking you off your chair is he?)...LOL!
Frank
 
Thanks for the reply. My Vista Ultimate is 64 bit. I am using a AMD 64 X2
Processor. My motherboard advised on the manual can handle 4 gigabytes of
memory. So my solution is not to switch to a 64 bit OS's which I have
already have. Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Boaby
 
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