Vista - Correct RAM?

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?

Hello,

The rest of it (129 MB) is taken up by the integrated graphics chip on your system.

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"OT" <hello@hello.com> wrote in message news:uwMlXATVHHA.4188@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>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" <hello@hello.com> wrote in message
news:uwMlXATVHHA.4188@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>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?

OT wrote:
> 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?

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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"Brownz (Mobile)" <someone.not@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> OT wrote:
>> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Cheerz - Brownz
> http://www.brownz.org/

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 [MVP]" <anando@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> The rest of it (129 MB) is taken up by the integrated graphics chip on
> your system.
>
> --
> Anando
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> Microsoft Certified Professional
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> http://www.mvps.org
>
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>
> "OT" <hello@hello.com> wrote in message
> news:uwMlXATVHHA.4188@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>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?
>
>

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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"OT" <hello@hello.com> wrote in message news:uCBwP4TVHHA.4028@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>I have a 256mb ATI video card installed on my system. Vista will still take an additional 129 for
>the integrated chip?
>
>
>
> "Anando [MVP]" <anando@mvps.org> wrote in message news:eRktECTVHHA.4632@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Hello,
>>
>> The rest of it (129 MB) is taken up by the integrated graphics chip on your system.
>>
>> --
>> Anando
>> Microsoft MVP- Windows Shell/User
>> Microsoft Certified Professional
>> http://www.microsoft.com/mvp
>> http://www.mvps.org
>>
>> Folder customizations
>> http://www.anando.org/folder
>>
>> "OT" <hello@hello.com> wrote in message news:uwMlXATVHHA.4188@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>>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?
>>
>>
>

"OT" <hello@hello.com> wrote

>I have a 256mb ATI video card installed on my system.

> Vista will still take an additional 129 for the integrated chip?

It will until you tell the bios to stop doing it.

"Anando [MVP]" <anando@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> 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.
>

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" <hello@hello.com> wrote in message
>> news:uwMlXATVHHA.4188@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>> 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?
> "Anando [MVP]" <anando@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:eRktECTVHHA.4632@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Hello,
>> The rest of it (129 MB) is taken up by the integrated graphics chip
>> on your system.
>OT wrote:
> I have a 256mb ATI video card installed on my system. Vista will
> still take an additional 129 for the integrated chip?

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

Google it for a few answers.

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