Any way to squeeze out more ram ( ammount, not speed)

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Due to chipset limitation, my asus p5ld2 only gives me 3200 mb out of 4 gb, I have a 64 bit os ( and 32 bit ) and on vista x64, my ram regurally runs out ( due to cache-ing), I'd like to have my 896 mb back so is there any bios setting that can let the chipset use more of my ram?

It's not any windows setting, in post screen it says 3200mb ok, and in bios it says 896 mb is taken for something, I believe its called appropriated, also asus site is saying due to chipset limitation that it wont support full 4gb, however, is there something that makes me win back even part of the 900 ish mb?
 
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possibly your gfx card? same happens in xp, btw. I think the o/s detects an abundance of ram and hoards what it wants for performance reasons.
 
Coolasmoo said:
This is mine currently using Vista 64

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Dont quite understand it :confused:
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As said, my chipset takes my almost 900 mb, I was asking if there is anything in bios I can do about it, OS has nothing to do with it.
 
I am not sure mate on your situation or prob fully but i think if you dont run ** ram in dual channel mode it might get more memory back. Not sure tho just might have been somit i heard once.
 
Why do people reply without reading, has nothing do do with os, im running 64 bit vista, it's the pci-e & controllers devices takign up some of the adress space, as my chipset lacks enough to get 4gb RAM + all the devices, so was woundering if there is something I can disable in bios to take back some ram?

Disablign dual channel might help, but tbh I don't want to half my RAM bandwith, and I wouldn't know how, never seeen an option to disable DC.
 
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from my link abov, with my added bold...
*snip*

"there are two ways to get the lost memory back.

Some 64-bit motherboards these days give you an option for "memory hole remapping". That moves the fourth-gigabyte MMIO memory holes higher into the 64-bit address space, probably way above the maximum RAM you can physically install.

Many other 64-bit boards, though, are even smarter, and can leave the memory holes where they are and remap (at least some of) the physical RAM out from under the holes and up past 4Gb. This process is often entertainingly referred to as "memory hoisting", and it used to be the preserve of server motherboards. It's been showing up in more and more desktop mobos, though. And on some of them, the memory-hoisting BIOS setting even works, and doesn't horribly crash the system as soon as something tries to use the remapped RAM.

You may only be able to "hoist" the last 512Mb of the 4Gb address space, but that's better than nothing. If it works.

I should add a note about the /3GB, /4GT and /PAE Windows boot.ini switches, too, because they often come up when people are talking about 4Gb-plus Windows PCs.

They are all useless to you. You do not want them."

if you have either bios setting, your in luck (but it might do horrible things to 32bit compatibility and os's)

otherwise then its only probably possible to get it back with some sort of exciting linux setup. but i am not able to advise on that.
 
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