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Name: uranawho
Date: November 30, 2006 at 12:02:43 Pacific
OS: WINDOWS XP
CPU/Ram: 256
Product: packard bell
Comment:

Hi all,

Ive been looking at Vista for my laptop & PC. I need a certain amount of RAM to run this ,however a microsoft check on the PC comes up with 300 of ram only...although I have 512 installed!. Any ideas why this is?

Thanks .




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Response Number 1
Name: IVO
Date: November 30, 2006 at 12:53:45 Pacific
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May be the missing RAM is "stolen" as shared video memory by the graphic card.

Have cautions in upgrading that laptop to Vista as you could loose the Aero effects that so much boost Vista.


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Response Number 2
Name: XpUser
Date: November 30, 2006 at 13:03:30 Pacific
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Some discrepancy with your RAM...

although I have 512 installed

Didn't you specify your PC statistic as CPU/Ram: 256

Which is correct?


i_XpUser


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Response Number 3
Name: Grok Lobster
Date: November 30, 2006 at 21:38:50 Pacific
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It's a 256 MHz CPU ;)


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Response Number 4
Name: uranawho
Date: December 1, 2006 at 08:33:06 Pacific
Reply:

Sorry for the miss info- Laptop is 512 ram, its my PC that is 256!

Thanks for the inputs so far.

Uranawho


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Response Number 5
Name: Cobra_R
Date: December 2, 2006 at 13:42:03 Pacific
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Do you have an intergrated gpus in that system? If so then your IGP is taking 128 of your system ram from your main board.

Second of all I would not advise you to run Vista with 512mb of ram, you need at least 1gb. Installing Vista on 512mb of ram is a waste of time.

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Response Number 6
Name: uranawho
Date: December 4, 2006 at 14:22:32 Pacific
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Thanks Cobra_R. I thought 512 would be ample for vista, I was wrong!(s)Many thanks for your advice.


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