4gb (3gb Usable) On 64-BIT

S.T.A.R.S. said:
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!
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S.T.A.R.S. said:
I just said that.Read my post...
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It doesnt matter, that post doesnt have anything to show with how much memory is uesable to the OS either. How much memory the OS is using is completely different then how much is useable.
 
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Try clearing the CMOS, upgrading the BIOS and setting default settings. Memory remapping was my first thought, however its called several things
 
S.T.A.R.S. said:
And I never said that.
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A couple things then:
1. If you say so.....
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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2. Then why bring it up in the first place?

Still at this point, who cares. It's not related so we can all stop talking about it.

Denther said:
Memtest? Switching sockets? Reseating sticks?

Not sure if you've tried those.
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I'm not dismissing either suggestion, but the OS and BIOS sound like they both know 4GB is there, but 3GB shown as addressed/usable. That would suggest the RAM is seated properly and is working.
 
Cromewell said:
A couple things then:
1. If you say so.....

2. Then why bring it up in the first place?

Still at this point, who cares. It's not related so we can all stop talking about it.


I'm not dismissing either suggestion, but the OS and BIOS sound like they both know 4GB is there, but 3GB shown as addressed/usable. That would suggest the RAM is seated properly and is working.
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In which case I'd call this issue out as a limitation of the motherboard chipset. However, I have had issues like this in the past (8GB detected, 4GB useable) and reseating the CPU and/or upping the vcore/northbridge voltage have helped. Also make sure you have the MAXMEM option disabled in msconfig, otherwise you won't get the full amount (assuming there are no other barriers in the way). It can be a tough issue to sort, but the OP has tried all the suggestion previously mentioned (at least I hope he has!)
 
Well it's got to be the onboard graphics. I somehow ended up at the wrong page before, the display adapter isn't a VIA, it's a Radeon 3000, my mistake.

For memory hole remapping (don't think this will solve your immediate issue, but try it anyway):
From your manual, go to the advanced section of the BIOS then select Chipset. Once in that menu, you should see "Memory Hole Remapping" Set it to Enabled.

To disable your onboard graphics (again, from the manual): go to the advanced section of the BIOS then select Chipset. Find Internal Graphics Mode and set it to disabled.
 
On my ASRock motherboard (also with a 3000-series iGPU), there's no option to actually disable the onboard... however, in the BIOS there was an option to set the graphics memory to sideport only (UMA is shared system memory). Maybe you have a similar option?
 
Some BIOSES have an option to share RAM memory with VRAM memory (in order to make it a little bit stronger) on onboard graphics so that can be the case with you.Just go into the BIOS and disable RAM memory sharing with your onboard graphics and see if that helps.
 
Gee, I will be watching this thread closely. I have the exact same problem. 4gb ram showing as 3.4 with 2.11 useable. Ramtest showed no problems but is incredibly slow doing its job. I just looked again at my system info. 2.11 useable. That just seems wrong to me
 
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