4.00Gb (3.25GB) of Ram useable (win 7 64 bit)

andythelandy

andythelandy

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I'm abit confused with this, I have just done a reformat and install windows 7 again but as the screenshot shows its only using 3.25 Gb of ram and this is 64bit like it says underneath. The only thing I can think of is that the onboard graphics on my motherboard are taking some of my Ram but I have got the primary graphics set to pcie(my 5850) in the bios so I don't see how it can be? Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks In advance

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m4cc45 said:
Try disabling the onboard graphics from the BIOS - I'd still say that the onboard graphics card was enabled judging by the screenshot.
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I cannot for the life of me find anywhere to turn the graphics off in the bios, like I said I have set the priority to pcie but that is the only place where it even mentions onboard graphics

SiriusB said:
You might have to turn on Memory Remapping [or similar] in the BIOS.
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I'll have a look for this.
 
Just had another look around the bios found where onboard video is enable/disabled eventually.. and it is defantyl disabled I alse had a look for this memory remapping but I couldn't find anything, what part of the bios would it usually be in?

Thanks
 
JonRohan said:
I have a similar issue but as my PC is HP it seems as though the motherboard isn't a true 64bit motherboard if that makes sense. It cannot see the full amount of RAM with any 64bit system. It could be that yours is the same. There may be a firmware update for your motherboard you can try.
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Its not that I'm sure, its a £100 motherboard I probably should have said this before but this has all worked perfectly before with the full 4gb and win7 64bit, its since I did a reformat last night that its started saying that.

I checked device manager and its saying my video card is defantly the 5850
 
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