What Vista showing incorrect memory allocation?

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
Wed May 07 12:29:29 PDT 2008

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



"Boaby" <nothanks@spam.com> wrote in message
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> 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
>

Frank
Wed May 07 12:39:09 PDT 2008

Clear Windows wrote:
> 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

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

Clear
Wed May 07 13:08:45 PDT 2008

ah.. so you are right for once in your life.. indeed he did say that he has
64 bit and I didn't see that.

I have no problem admitting I am wrong when I am, unlike you. You stubborn
old mad.



"Frank" <fb@tham.mmc> wrote in message
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> Clear Windows wrote:
>> 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
>
> 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

Boaby
Wed May 07 14:51:18 PDT 2008

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

"Clear Windows" <carlferedeck@wizzmail.com> wrote in message
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>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
>
>
>
> "Boaby" <nothanks@spam.com> wrote in message
> news:enX2kLHsIHA.5068@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> 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
>>
>

Frank
Wed May 07 15:24:35 PDT 2008

Clear Windows wrote:
> ah.. so you are right for once in your life.. indeed he did say that he
> has 64 bit and I didn't see that.

Yeah, you need to look before leaping!
>
> I have no problem admitting I am wrong when I am, unlike you.
You
> stubborn old mad.

Stuff it cc, you're out of control!
Frank

Clear
Wed May 07 15:44:17 PDT 2008

I would be out of control if I said that I have kicked your ars so many
times my shoe has gone from black to brown

Opps I just said it...


sorry to be kicking the crap out of you every day, but you seem to enjoy it
you
sick old man.



"Frank" <fb@tri.olk> wrote in message
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> Clear Windows wrote:
>> ah.. so you are right for once in your life.. indeed he did say that he
>> has 64 bit and I didn't see that.
>
> Yeah, you need to look before leaping!
>>
>> I have no problem admitting I am wrong when I am, unlike you.
> You
>> stubborn old mad.
>
> Stuff it cc, you're out of control!
> Frank