ram quierie

Howdy.

Just had a new computer built.
running vista
It has 4 gb of ram
512mb pci graphics
2.4 quad core
160gb h/d
5.1 on board sound card and Ethernet

my problem seems that the ram only shows 3.25gb.
Can someone explain why this might be the case.

Cheers

"funguy" <funguy@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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> Howdy.
>
> Just had a new computer built.
> running vista
> It has 4 gb of ram
> 512mb pci graphics
> 2.4 quad core
> 160gb h/d
> 5.1 on board sound card and Ethernet
>
> my problem seems that the ram only shows 3.25gb.
> Can someone explain why this might be the case.
>
> Cheers


That's about all the the 32bit version of Vista can support...
if you want to use more RAM you will need the 64bit version of Vista

http://www.realtime-vista.com/instal...imitations.htm

You are running the 32 bit version of Vista. 32 OS's can only address 4 GB
of memory. That 4 GB includes video memory, I/O, BIOS, and finally RAM. So,
your machine will only "see" what is left after the other hardware reserves
its addresses in that 4 GB, which is ~3.2GB.

--
Dustin Harper
dharper@vistarip.com
http://www.VistaRIP.com | Vista Resource & Information Page


"funguy" <funguy@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
news:O8gilw1aIHA.4344@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Howdy.
>
> Just had a new computer built.
> running vista
> It has 4 gb of ram
> 512mb pci graphics
> 2.4 quad core
> 160gb h/d
> 5.1 on board sound card and Ethernet
> my problem seems that the ram only shows 3.25gb.
> Can someone explain why this might be the case.
>
> Cheers