4gb (3gb Usable) On 64-BIT

Pell

Pell

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Hey,
I recently upgraded a pc from 1gb of ram to 4gb :D
But when i show up the system screen to check it says
"4gb (3gb Usable)"
I find it very odd, and yes this is 64-bit windows 7 ultimate.
The motherboard is a A8V-VM.

Please Help Me Thanks. :D
 
Your worrying over nothing. It is only allowing 3 GB to be used because the system is using 1GB already. You have RAM being used by hypermemory (i think), and system tasks. You are seeing all 4 GB so you are fine.
 
Its got onboard video, is it enabled and are you using it. If not disable it in the bios. Check to see if you have memory remappping in the bios. In windows in msconfig/boot/Advanced Options/uncheck max memory.
 
i have unchecked max memory and i looked in bios and it say's 4000 ram but usable 3000?
I am using a graphics card so i dont really want to use onboard?
 
Pell said:
I am using a graphics card so i dont really want to use onboard?
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If it is possible, disable the onboard video in the BIOS, sounds to me like the onboard video is sharing memory.

You are worrying over nothing though. Is 4096MB detected in the BIOS?

We've had a topic like this recently, it's a common issue. I had the same problem once with 7.96GB of RAM being usable out of 8.0GB installed, and it was because the graphics card was sharing memory. It's not really a big problem.
 
:/ i can't trun it off in the bios i did a long look in it and it had no option to. Seems like im stuck with this minute problem :/ nevermind it's only small issue. Thanks for all the help guys!.
 
It is Yes a AMI and it does not have the option of memory remapping. :/ reset to defaults did not make a difference either.
 
Ok Pell i know well about AMI bios because most of the ASUS boards using them. Ok u go to bios then advanced>chipset>enter. The setting is there.
 
:/ you have not finished explaining where in the bios? advanced>chipset>enter (wtf?)

there is no option enter obviously theres the key on the keyboard? which slelects the top option? please could you keep going so what option after chipset?
 
If you do not use onboard graphic chip,disable it.

Besides if your BIOS and Windows OS DO see all 4 GB of RAM memory then you do not have to worry about anything.

Besides 1 GB is usually used by the system and other resources such as for example PF usage.



Cheers!
 
S.T.A.R.S. said:
Besides 1 GB is usually used by the system and other resources such as for example PF usage.
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The page file doesn't sit in RAM, that's why it's slow...generally that 1GB is used for memory mapped IO and in the case of onboard video, for that as well.
i can't find it in the bios to disable it?
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Not all BIOSes will have the option, even if it's a type where at least one vendor (in this case Asus) does have the option.
 
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Cromewell said:
The page file doesn't sit in RAM, that's why it's slow...generally that 1GB is used for memory mapped IO and in the case of onboard video, for that as well.
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No no lol I didn't think that RAM is PF haha.PF usage is empty space on HDD/SSD.
What I meant is that his PF usage may be big if most of his RAM is already used by something such as many hungry system resources.
Unless if he of course completely disables the PF usage :P




Cheers!
 
S.T.A.R.S. said:
If you do not use onboard graphic chip,disable it.

Besides if your BIOS and Windows OS DO see all 4 GB of RAM memory then you do not have to worry about anything.
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Yes he does, if its not useable the OS doesnt have access to it.

S.T.A.R.S. said:
Besides 1 GB is usually used by the system and other resources such as for example PF usage.
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PF is on the harddrive, not the system memory.

Pell said:
i can't find it in the bios to disable it?
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Look in Device Manager and see if the onboard shows up there. If it does right click on it and pick disable and reboot and see what happens.
 
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