win 7 32bit (say 2.5gb avaible on 4.0gb

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Hi!
I have win 7 32bit (LEGAL),its says 4.0gb but only 2.5 gb available!

Man, 2.5gb is not enough for me. I max it out playing hon + some web open + music on....

Some site say to enable HT / SW memory hole mapping I have enable HT (Bios doesnt show SW)

Still show 2.5gb not 4.0gb

In bios I see 4.00gb, 3.5gb Available!

 

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It's because you have 32bit. Change over to the 64bit Win 7 to access all of your RAM.

 

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damn! should have installed this one........
Ill dl the 64bit version (provided by school ) and re install damn me!

 

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Good luck!!

 

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kk
installed 64 bit and now its say 4.00gb avaible and i can only use 3.5ghz
WTF is going on!

 

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Could you post a screen shot of the 3.5 usage.

 

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Call me crazy, but could win 7 be using that ram?

 

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Ressource monitor open :
Hardware Reserved 514MB
In Use 1180MB
Modified : 78 MB
Standby :2325
Free : 0 MB

 

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Grosjambon said:

Ressource monitor open :
Hardware Reserved 514MB
In Use 1180MB
Modified : 78 MB
Standby :2325
Free : 0 MB

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based on what i'm reading :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978610

it seems your onboard is eating up some ram

 

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Yea but, this doesnt explain why under 32bit it was only 2.5 on 4gb...

 

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Grosjambon said:

Yea but, this doesnt explain why under 32bit it was only 2.5 on 4gb...

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this explains it a lot better then I can
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/285279-30-maximum

but long and short, your ram on a 32 bit OS can only be maxed at 4gb or less. each byte of ram needs a adressing point (or name) the 32bit os can only read that maximum of 4gb worth of addresses and other parts of your pc such as:
- System BIOS (including motherboard, add-on cards, etc..)
- Motherboards resources
- Memory mapped I/O
- Configuration for AGP/PCI-Ex/PCI
- Other memory allocations for PCI devices
all use adressing as well


odds are the 32 bit os could only read the 3gb of ram since the other available 1gb was addressing the other parts of your system. which brings us down to 3gb total and your onboard is eating the other .5gb

 

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You can get the hard reserved part back..

http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/62947-hardware-reserved-memory-issue.html

 

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Tokae said:

You can get the hard reserved part back..

http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/62947-hardware-reserved-memory-issue.html

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Thanks mate, I'm still on xp so the more technical side of 7 is lost for me at the moment.

 

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ah sorry! I didn't see that

 

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Do you have your onboard video disabled?