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Old 07-10-2007, 07:57 AM
Willy
 
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Default RAM question

This may not be proper place to post this but only NG I could think was
appropriate. Sorry if it's not.
I'm supposed to have 2GB RAM in this PC. It's showing 1910MB in Control
Panel>System. Is 1910MB the same as 1.9GB? Or is my PC not seeing both1GB
sticks?
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Old 07-10-2007, 08:11 AM
C J.
 
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Default Re: RAM question

Some of that loss is due to your Video adapter card.. esp if it has 128mb
on the card... then 1910 GB should be correct.

Willy <justask@hotmail.com> wrote:
> This may not be proper place to post this but only NG I could think was
> appropriate. Sorry if it's not.
> I'm supposed to have 2GB RAM in this PC. It's showing 1910MB in Control
> Panel>System. Is 1910MB the same as 1.9GB? Or is my PC not seeing
> both1GB sticks?



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Old 07-10-2007, 09:11 AM
Willy
 
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Default Re: RAM question

C.J.
Did you mean 1910MB in your reply? You wrote 1910GB. I understand the loss
due to video card.
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"C J." <no.reply@example.invalid> wrote in message
news:u503NGswHHA.840@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Some of that loss is due to your Video adapter card.. esp if it has 128mb
> on the card... then 1910 GB should be correct.
>
> Willy <justask@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> This may not be proper place to post this but only NG I could think was
>> appropriate. Sorry if it's not.
>> I'm supposed to have 2GB RAM in this PC. It's showing 1910MB in Control
>> Panel>System. Is 1910MB the same as 1.9GB? Or is my PC not seeing
>> both1GB sticks?

>
>



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Old 07-10-2007, 09:24 AM
C J.
 
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Default Re: RAM question

Yes... 1910 MB it was supposed to be... I wrote GB... my bad!

Willy <justask@hotmail.com> wrote:
> C.J.
> Did you mean 1910MB in your reply? You wrote 1910GB. I understand the
> loss due to video card.
>
> "C J." <no.reply@example.invalid> wrote in message
> news:u503NGswHHA.840@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Some of that loss is due to your Video adapter card.. esp if it has 128mb
>> on the card... then 1910 GB should be correct.
>>
>> Willy <justask@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> This may not be proper place to post this but only NG I could think was
>>> appropriate. Sorry if it's not.
>>> I'm supposed to have 2GB RAM in this PC. It's showing 1910MB in Control
>>> Panel>System. Is 1910MB the same as 1.9GB? Or is my PC not seeing
>>> both1GB sticks?



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Old 07-10-2007, 09:47 AM
Willy
 
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Default Re: RAM question

Appreciate the clarification. So I gather I'm good to go as far as PC
seeing the 2 GB then?
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"C J." <no.reply@example.invalid> wrote in message
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> Yes... 1910 MB it was supposed to be... I wrote GB... my bad!
>
> Willy <justask@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> C.J.
>> Did you mean 1910MB in your reply? You wrote 1910GB. I understand the
>> loss due to video card.
>>
>> "C J." <no.reply@example.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:u503NGswHHA.840@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>> Some of that loss is due to your Video adapter card.. esp if it has
>>> 128mb
>>> on the card... then 1910 GB should be correct.
>>>
>>> Willy <justask@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> This may not be proper place to post this but only NG I could think was
>>>> appropriate. Sorry if it's not.
>>>> I'm supposed to have 2GB RAM in this PC. It's showing 1910MB in
>>>> Control
>>>> Panel>System. Is 1910MB the same as 1.9GB? Or is my PC not seeing
>>>> both1GB sticks?

>
>



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Old 07-10-2007, 02:05 PM
Tim Slattery
 
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Default Re: RAM question

"Willy" <justask@hotmail.com> wrote:

>This may not be proper place to post this but only NG I could think was
>appropriate. Sorry if it's not.
>I'm supposed to have 2GB RAM in this PC. It's showing 1910MB in Control
>Panel>System. Is 1910MB the same as 1.9GB? Or is my PC not seeing both1GB
>sticks?


If your system uses shared video memory, then some of your 2GB of RAM
will be devoted to the video system, and Windows won't report it as
RAM in the control panel applet. Yes, 1.9 GB is about the same as
1910MB, the machine is certainly seeing both sticks.

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Old 07-10-2007, 03:27 PM
Willy
 
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Default Re: RAM question

Appreciate the info from all the above. I just wanted to be sure.
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"Tim Slattery" <Slattery_T@bls.gov> wrote in message
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> "Willy" <justask@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>This may not be proper place to post this but only NG I could think was
>>appropriate. Sorry if it's not.
>>I'm supposed to have 2GB RAM in this PC. It's showing 1910MB in Control
>>Panel>System. Is 1910MB the same as 1.9GB? Or is my PC not seeing
>>both1GB
>>sticks?

>
> If your system uses shared video memory, then some of your 2GB of RAM
> will be devoted to the video system, and Windows won't report it as
> RAM in the control panel applet. Yes, 1.9 GB is about the same as
> 1910MB, the machine is certainly seeing both sticks.
>
> --
> Tim Slattery
> MS MVP(DTS)
> Slattery_T@bls.gov
> http://members.cox.net/slatteryt



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Old 07-10-2007, 03:56 PM
M.I.5¾
 
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Default Re: RAM question


"Willy" <justask@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uKZrI%23rwHHA.5108@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> This may not be proper place to post this but only NG I could think was
> appropriate. Sorry if it's not.
> I'm supposed to have 2GB RAM in this PC. It's showing 1910MB in Control
> Panel>System. Is 1910MB the same as 1.9GB? Or is my PC not seeing
> both1GB sticks?


1910 Mb is 2,002,780,160 Bytes (which is *not* 2Gb in memory terms).
However you may have lost some of your memory to the graphics card if you
have shared memory.


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Old 07-10-2007, 05:20 PM
frodo@theshire.net
 
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Default Re: RAM question

or you may have lost some of the ram to "ROM shadowing" being done in the
bios. You do not need that w/ XP, and you should turn it off.
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Old 07-10-2007, 08:38 PM
Willy
 
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Default Re: RAM question

I have Vista.
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<frodo@theshire.net> wrote in message
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> or you may have lost some of the ram to "ROM shadowing" being done in the
> bios. You do not need that w/ XP, and you should turn it off.



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