Vista - 4gig ram and 2.8 useable?

I've got 4gb ram in my machine but Control Panel > System indicates 2814
mb. I realize in 32-bit that I lose some address space, but this seems a
little silly esp. with a 512mb video card. How do I troubleshoot this?

thanks,
Dave

Look for the answer under your other posting.

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"Dave Parker" <dtparker@fuse.net> wrote in message
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> I've got 4gb ram in my machine but Control Panel > System indicates 2814
> mb. I realize in 32-bit that I lose some address space, but this seems a
> little silly esp. with a 512mb video card. How do I troubleshoot this?
>
> thanks,
> Dave
>

solution.......................

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greatings, johnny.


"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> schreef in bericht
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> Look for the answer under your other posting.
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
> "Dave Parker" <dtparker@fuse.net> wrote in message
> news:Ovf9nFtWHHA.4764@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> I've got 4gb ram in my machine but Control Panel > System indicates 2814
>> mb. I realize in 32-bit that I lose some address space, but this seems a
>> little silly esp. with a 512mb video card. How do I troubleshoot this?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Dave
>>
>

What does your video RAM have to do with system RAM? Uh, nothing? Unless
your video RAM is shared with system RAM. But you say you have a 512MB video
card, so one must assume you're not using shared RAM for video. True or
false?

Lang

"Dave Parker" <dtparker@fuse.net> wrote in message
news:Ovf9nFtWHHA.4764@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> I've got 4gb ram in my machine but Control Panel > System indicates 2814
> mb. I realize in 32-bit that I lose some address space, but this seems a
> little silly esp. with a 512mb video card. How do I troubleshoot this?
>
> thanks,
> Dave
>

I have 512mb on the video card - and of course Windows has to account for
that - is has to live in the allowed 4gb address space for 32 bits. Still I
was expecting to get 3.5 gb rather than 2.8 gb of unusable RAM. More than
1/2gb of address space that something has grabbed - I would just like to
figure out what... 680i SLI motherboard with a core2 Duo Extreme x6800 and
a single GeForce 7950 GS.

Dave

"Lang Murphy" <lang_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:eLUo1swWHHA.4188@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> What does your video RAM have to do with system RAM? Uh, nothing? Unless
> your video RAM is shared with system RAM. But you say you have a 512MB
> video card, so one must assume you're not using shared RAM for video. True
> or false?
>
> Lang
>
> "Dave Parker" <dtparker@fuse.net> wrote in message
> news:Ovf9nFtWHHA.4764@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> I've got 4gb ram in my machine but Control Panel > System indicates 2814
>> mb. I realize in 32-bit that I lose some address space, but this seems a
>> little silly esp. with a 512mb video card. How do I troubleshoot this?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Dave
>>
>