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RAM Total Memory Not Showing
Name: swy00 Date: October 17, 2005 at 21:02:17 Pacific OS: WinXP Pro CPU/Ram: 512
Comment:
Hey,
I had bought a stick of Ultra Ram 512 PC3200 cause they were on rebates and all, and now im looking at it through Everest and its showing something weird. First, here are my specs:
Name: GX1 Man Date: October 17, 2005 at 21:26:25 Pacific
Reply:
What does it say during boot up? And in BIOS/setup screen. Forget Windows.
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Response Number 2
Name: swy00 Date: October 17, 2005 at 21:45:40 Pacific
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Well, u have a point.., on start up, it says, Memory Testing: 457728K + 64M shared memory + 1M TSeg Memory...
So am i supposed to keep 64 shared?? What is it used for exactly?
Sam
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Response Number 3
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: October 17, 2005 at 22:34:22 Pacific
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The other 64 meg is being used for video memory. You can probably change the amount in cmos/bios setup.
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Response Number 4
Name: jam Date: October 18, 2005 at 04:49:27 Pacific
Reply:
You're obviously using the onboard video & have it set to share 64MB, so that is "borrowed" from your 512MB. Your board has a PCI-e slot, so if you wanna play games, you should buy a "real" video card & return that 64MB back to the system. Adding another 512MB stick wouldn't hurt either....
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