I already have Fedora, which I was using on this same system before My vista
came in the mail. Then I scrapped Fedora out.... Fedora worked fine and also
detected and used all the 6 GB of RAM. OpenSUSE 10.3 also agreed with
fedora. This is a problem with Vista I am sure, as u can see in my first
post, the registry values and the values in resources tab of every device in
devicemanager also shows that the Hex values of memory mapped lies from 4 GB
and downwards, what shall I do? Do you agree that this problem is with Vista?
"Canuck57" wrote:
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> "broken_ninja" <brokenninja@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:EF2ABD2C-E42D-4B14-BDEA-896721646837@xxxxxx Quote:
> > If i had 8 GB and my mobo addresses 8 GB only, I can understand why i wud
> > get
> > only 7374 MB ram. but the issue here is, vista x64 has not remapped the
> > resources for devices to the 8GB space, it is still at the 4GB and
> > downwards
> > space, as a result it is gobbling up my RAM.
> >
> > "Bob Campbell" wrote:
>
> Go to http://software.opensuse.org/ and download the live version and make a
> CD of it. The live version will allow you to test the ystems and see how
> much RAM Linux can see/use. Make sure you get the live version, it is meant
> to run from the CD/DVD. You do not want to install until your sure you
> want to scrap Vista.
>
> Quote:
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> >> "Canuck57" <dave-no.spam4me@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> >> news:EVCFj.111467$pM4.80323@xxxxxx
> >> > My x84 is really Vista Premium x86. Not sure about it being premium.
> >>
> >> Then you are not using 8 GB of RAM. Vista 32 is limited to about 3.3 GB
> >> of
> >> RAM. It is physically impossible for 32 bit Vista to use more than
> >> this,
> >> regardless of your MB or BIOS or what you do or what it is reporting.
> >> Vista 32 with SP1 will report all of your RAM, but it still will not USE
> >> it.
> >>
> >> > Not all mapping is BIOS, Vista has a part as does video. UMA
> >> > Video...can
> >> > dynamically grab RAM - does that show as usable or get hidden and used?
> >>
> >> MB video ram isn't "remapped", it is simply used for video, and will not
> >> be
> >> available to Vista.
> >>
> >>
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