"Canuck57" <dave-no.spam4me@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> He should see, and be able to use 6GB without any issues, or so the theory
> goes.
Depends on where the "remapped memory" is remapped to!
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> To me, it sounds like Vista has remapped memory in just under 4GB and not
> up just under 8GB.
Vista does not do the remapping. It's the MB/BIOS/memory controller.
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> BTW, I have 8GB and windows recognizes it ALL. Home Premium x84 even.
> All 8,386,892 KB of it as available to Windows. It might be mapping
> memory, or maybe I am just lucky with the extra address bits and it sits
> up at 16GB or something.
Your MB is remapping the PCI address space ABOVE your 8 GB RAM limit. I
hope your "x84" above is x64 - if it's x86 you are not using 8 GB of RAM.