Why only 4093mb on Vista 64bit?

metalmackey · 21 Mar 2008 at 00:36

Hi,

I'm not moaning or anything, just curious. Why is only 4093mb and not 4096mb available to Vista 64bit?

Thanks

FreeStream · 21 Mar 2008 at 00:41

Does it really matter?

Its 3mb, could be mobo is using it or it could be a system thing.

Nothing to worry about

.walls · 21 Mar 2008 at 00:41

What are you going to do with 3MB?!

Seriously, wouldn't worry about it

metalmackey · 21 Mar 2008 at 00:49

LOL if you read my 1st post, I did say I was only curious. I ont care about 3megs, just wondering thats all.

.walls · 21 Mar 2008 at 00:51

Don't worry mate - I was just being cheeky... it's way to late for me to be serious!

metalmackey · 21 Mar 2008 at 00:57

Imagine a spectrum with 3 meg LOL

Burnsy2023 · 21 Mar 2008 at 01:10

That 3mb is used by the hamster which generates the all power for your processor. The hamster has a small terminal so he can browse the web whilst the processor is idling.

It's totally normal, in fact if you didn't lose that 3mb it would be because your hamster is dead and then your PC wouldn't power on at all.

Burnsy

metalmackey · 21 Mar 2008 at 01:17

I allways wondered what that squeaking noise was

So do I have 4 hamsters in mine?

Burnsy2023 · 21 Mar 2008 at 02:13

metalmackey said:
I allways wondered what that squeaking noise was So do I have 4 hamsters in mine?

No, just one superfit one.

Burnsy

Spyhop · 21 Mar 2008 at 07:57

So why does it happen in Vista? I'd have asked the same thing, not because I need an extra 3MB, but because listing a reduced and odd number would make me concerned that the dual-channel RAM setup might not be working. Computer geeks care about things like this

Stonedofmoo · 21 Mar 2008 at 08:15

I would hazard a guess your motherboard is using some of it. Many boards have monitoring tools on them that require a little bit of memory. Intel boards are good at that for example.

NathanE · 21 Mar 2008 at 09:54

Install SP1 and stop opening support tickets :mad:

chaparral · 21 Mar 2008 at 10:23

metalmackey said:
Hi,

I'm not moaning or anything, just curious. Why is only 4093mb and not 4096mb available to Vista 64bit?

Thanks

I have 4094mb free...

I most have a lazy hamster...

gareth170 · 21 Mar 2008 at 10:44

i have 4094MB total too... but doesn't really matter...