usable 3.25gig??? win7 64bit.

Phatzy

Phatzy

Phatzy

Associate
Joined
21 Apr 2008
Posts
1,536
Location
Manchester
hi i was just messing around in control panel i just saw that windows is only able to use 3.25gig of total of 4gig, as my win7 suddenly transformed into a 32bit? or is this normal?

 
Last edited:
possible that your graphics card is using half a gig of memory address space, as for the remaining memory im not sure.

[edit] but as your on 64bit my suggestion is completely false! sorry :(
 
It could be a chipset limitation - not all of them support remapping. My laptop has an i945PM chipset which shares this limitation;

4gb.jpg


Annoying, but there's nothing you can do about it if it does turn out to be the chipset.
 
As Broken Hope said, my mobo had an option in BIOS for memory mapping which had to be enabled to allow for more than 3.25 gig. Check if you have a similar option and enable it.
 
interesting, I looked at my system properties and also had a discrepency, I have 6 gig of memory installed, but just over 5 gig was available.

I've sorted mine, I found that in the advanced boot menu in msconfig some manual settings were being applied for some reason. Try this:

click start
type in msconfig and hit enter
go to the boot tab
click on the advanced options button
if there is a tick next to Number of processors and a tick next to Maximum memory then untick both of them
click OK
click Apply (make sure you do this!)
click OK
click restart now

worked for me, hope it helps
 
id upgraded my motherboard to a gigabyte ga-ma790x-ud4 last week and i had a quick look in bios for memory remap option didnt find it, I've already edited the advanced option in msconfig putting it to 4096mb but always reset to 0mb on reboot.
 
Phatzy, did you UNtick the two boxes in msconfig? or just max out the values? sorry, not sure what you tried, but UNtick the two boxes and reboot, see if it works.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom