Memory Glitch?

[fishcandy]

I recently performed a fresh re-install of Vista 32 bit and (total) physical memory in Task Manager indicates 3.02 gigs available, but have 4 gigs installed. I know that a 32 bit OS has memory limits and utilizes roughly 70% of in place memory but thats why i believe a glitch may have occured because before the re-install the OS was showing 3.57 gigs of available memory. I made no changes in bios and everything loaded and started up without issue. Also, i installed both service packs (1&2) and have had close to 200 OS updates in the last few days.

My memory is "Patriot DDR3 @ 1600, 4 gigs. BTW the pc runs just fine and i wouldn't have known the difference in mem totals upon checking in Task Manager and DirectX Diagnostic Tool. Any ideas?

 

[redduc900]

I'm not sure why or how 3.57GB was showing as available, but w/ the 32-bit version of Vista the max. amount of RAM that can be used by the system and app's is only 3.12GB.

 

[fishcandy]

I'm positively certain without doubt that my system indicated the 3.57 gigs when i installed the 4 gigs of mem several months ago. Perhaps that was the glitch initially after installing the mem by showing the 3.57 gigs in both Task Manager and Direct Diagnostics.

It's just a very odd occurance that i haven't seen before and to show up in two monitoring tools is strange, however, i can live with the 3 gigs until i upgrade to a 64 bit OS in the near future. Thanks