Windows Reading RAM Amount Wrong


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Certain laptops have graphics chipsets that draw their memory from the system memory. Typically, the system will then assign that memory to the chipset and show it as being gone, as far as system ram goes. You might have one of these, and if so, you're stuck.

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Originally posted by BxBoy

Windows has always been off by 1M for me.

same here...check what it says on bootup with the mem check...usually it will be what u actually have...xp is just a bitch that way ;)

ps - thats the way mine is

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Originally posted by BxBoy

Windows has always been off by 1M for me.

i know a lot of motherboards use 1mb of ram for the BIOS, this is found in a lot of gateways and dells usually

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Windows always is off by 1MB, i have 523,760kb

so its 523,760 / 1024 = 511.48MB

It might be that ram manufacturers round up instead of being precise :D

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Originally posted by azazel-

Certain laptops have graphics chipsets that draw their memory from the system memory. Typically, the system will then assign that memory to the chipset and show it as being gone, as far as system ram goes. You might have one of these, and if so, you're stuck.

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This is true, such gfx chips are crap.

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Yeah, my friend has a crappy e-machines pc and he has 64 MB RAM. Windows only shows it having 63 MB though because he has 1 MB shared video RAM.

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I can't get to the BIOS, no matter what I try, no button will take me to it :p. And like every comp makes you loose 1MB or RAM, but I'm loosing 16MB :(.

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