What Vista showing incorrect memory allocation?

Hello folks,

I have Vista 64 with 4 gigabytes of memory. Vista shows that I have 4
gigabytes of memory in the system properties and welcome screen but my
Winver command and the Task Manager displays that I have only 2.7 gigabytes
of memory? I recently installed a Radeon 3870 HD 1 GB graphics card. Could
my GPU could be eating up the rest of the memory. My motherboard is a DFI
Lan Party UT NF4 Ultra D. I am fairly certain it has the latest BIOS
firmware. I am confused.

Any ideas?

Boaby

a 32 bit OS without PAE can address only maximum theoretical 4 gb ram,
however each hardware attached must use some memory space of those 4 gbs,
not that the hardware actually uses the ram you have installed, but it needs
to allocate the memory space since it cannot go beyond the 4 gigs,
it must "eat up" some of the memory space that the OS would address

the more ram the display adaptor has the more memory from the 4 gigs the
display adaptor must allocate...

your solution is to switch to a 64 bit version of XP or Vista



"Boaby" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hello folks,
>
> I have Vista 64 with 4 gigabytes of memory. Vista shows that I have 4
> gigabytes of memory in the system properties and welcome screen but my
> Winver command and the Task Manager displays that I have only 2.7
> gigabytes of memory? I recently installed a Radeon 3870 HD 1 GB graphics
> card. Could my GPU could be eating up the rest of the memory. My
> motherboard is a DFI Lan Party UT NF4 Ultra D. I am fairly certain it has
> the latest BIOS firmware. I am confused.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Boaby
>

Clear Windows wrote:
> a 32 bit OS without PAE can address only maximum theoretical 4 gb ram,
> however each hardware attached must use some memory space of those 4 gbs,
> not that the hardware actually uses the ram you have installed, but it
> needs to allocate the memory space since it cannot go beyond the 4 gigs,
> it must "eat up" some of the memory space that the OS would address
>
> the more ram the display adaptor has the more memory from the 4 gigs the
> display adaptor must allocate...
>
> your solution is to switch to a 64 bit version of XP or Vista

hehehe...you're out of control capin' crunch. The op already stated that
he has Vista 64!
Settle down! Take a break...talk to the clown in the cubicle next to you
(he's not the who keeps knocking you off your chair is he?)...LOL!
Frank

ah.. so you are right for once in your life.. indeed he did say that he has
64 bit and I didn't see that.

I have no problem admitting I am wrong when I am, unlike you. You stubborn
old mad.



"Frank" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Clear Windows wrote:
>> a 32 bit OS without PAE can address only maximum theoretical 4 gb ram,
>> however each hardware attached must use some memory space of those 4 gbs,
>> not that the hardware actually uses the ram you have installed, but it
>> needs to allocate the memory space since it cannot go beyond the 4 gigs,
>> it must "eat up" some of the memory space that the OS would address
>>
>> the more ram the display adaptor has the more memory from the 4 gigs the
>> display adaptor must allocate...
>>
>> your solution is to switch to a 64 bit version of XP or Vista
>
> hehehe...you're out of control capin' crunch. The op already stated that
> he has Vista 64!
> Settle down! Take a break...talk to the clown in the cubicle next to you
> (he's not the who keeps knocking you off your chair is he?)...LOL!
> Frank

Thanks for the reply. My Vista Ultimate is 64 bit. I am using a AMD 64 X2
Processor. My motherboard advised on the manual can handle 4 gigabytes of
memory. So my solution is not to switch to a 64 bit OS's which I have
already have. Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Boaby

"Clear Windows" <> wrote in message
news:...
>a 32 bit OS without PAE can address only maximum theoretical 4 gb ram,
>however each hardware attached must use some memory space of those 4 gbs,
> not that the hardware actually uses the ram you have installed, but it
> needs to allocate the memory space since it cannot go beyond the 4 gigs,
> it must "eat up" some of the memory space that the OS would address
>
> the more ram the display adaptor has the more memory from the 4 gigs the
> display adaptor must allocate...
>
> your solution is to switch to a 64 bit version of XP or Vista
>
>
>
> "Boaby" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> I have Vista 64 with 4 gigabytes of memory. Vista shows that I have 4
>> gigabytes of memory in the system properties and welcome screen but my
>> Winver command and the Task Manager displays that I have only 2.7
>> gigabytes of memory? I recently installed a Radeon 3870 HD 1 GB graphics
>> card. Could my GPU could be eating up the rest of the memory. My
>> motherboard is a DFI Lan Party UT NF4 Ultra D. I am fairly certain it has
>> the latest BIOS firmware. I am confused.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Boaby
>>
>

Clear Windows wrote:
> ah.. so you are right for once in your life.. indeed he did say that he
> has 64 bit and I didn't see that.

Yeah, you need to look before leaping!
>
> I have no problem admitting I am wrong when I am, unlike you.
You
> stubborn old mad.

Stuff it cc, you're out of control!
Frank

I would be out of control if I said that I have kicked your ars so many
times my shoe has gone from black to brown

Opps I just said it...


sorry to be kicking the crap out of you every day, but you seem to enjoy it
you
sick old man.



"Frank" <> wrote in message
news:48222c22$0$3388$...
> Clear Windows wrote:
>> ah.. so you are right for once in your life.. indeed he did say that he
>> has 64 bit and I didn't see that.
>
> Yeah, you need to look before leaping!
>>
>> I have no problem admitting I am wrong when I am, unlike you.
> You
>> stubborn old mad.
>
> Stuff it cc, you're out of control!
> Frank