DeathLace Posted July 10, 2002 Share Posted July 10, 2002 Okay, my laptop has 256MB of RAM, but my windows XP only reads 240MB, how do I fix this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azazel- Posted July 10, 2002 Share Posted July 10, 2002 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BxBoy Posted July 10, 2002 Share Posted July 10, 2002 Windows has always been off by 1M for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Otto Posted July 10, 2002 Share Posted July 10, 2002 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathLace Posted July 10, 2002 Author Share Posted July 10, 2002 Done that sucks, oh well :(. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username Posted July 10, 2002 Share Posted July 10, 2002 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zivan56 Posted July 10, 2002 Share Posted July 10, 2002 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dessimat0r Posted July 11, 2002 Share Posted July 11, 2002 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. This is true, such gfx chips are crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weasel Posted July 11, 2002 Share Posted July 11, 2002 heh. I bet that grafix card is thinking something along the lines of... "All your RAM are belong to us" :devious: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liar2 Posted July 11, 2002 Share Posted July 11, 2002 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerkPY Posted July 11, 2002 Share Posted July 11, 2002 That happens to me, just not as big as that. I have 128MB RAM, and it reads as 127MB RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dacbo Posted July 11, 2002 Share Posted July 11, 2002 some bioses allow you to change the amount of video ram if you have shared gfx - take a look Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathLace Posted July 11, 2002 Author Share Posted July 11, 2002 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 :(. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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