RAM in windows issue

[AMDFTW]

hey peeps i got my RAM today off tom,but when i go into my computer 4gigs show up but it says that only 2gb is useable,so what does this mean and can i sort it otherwise its pointless me having 4gb lol

rig in sig

 

[tinytomlogan]

Just a windows glitch dude, there is a fix somewhere, this seems to happen all the time tbh.

 

[FragTek]

I've never heard of this happening in 64-bit Win7..... I popped in all 8gb's of my memory and it showed up no problem at all.

 

[AMDFTW]

yer it is odd,when i go into msconfig and manualy set the RAM my system wont boot and requires me to reset CMOS

GPU-Z is showing 4gigs,not sure if task manager is i have 952mb free at 33% usage if any one can work that out lol

so how do i get the fix

EDIT-ok i reseted the CMOS again and i whent into msconfig and unticked the 'use max memory' and the CPU one and all seems to be ok now i have it running at 1066mhz 2.2v 5-5-5-15,i havent noticed no speed change tho i will get multi tasking lol

 

[alienware]

I'm sure that sometimes more memory can be bad. If you are not using it all then it will just slow things down.

Could be wrong but I am sure I read an article about it once.

 

[AMDFTW]

i think 4gb with a quad core is not bad if i had say 8gb or 12gb maybe

also what is the difference between

Available

and

Free

in task manager

 

[AMDFTW]

ok i have been messing around and according to resource monitor i only have 2.5Gb of useable RAM,even tho windows is now seeing it all.

this is getting frustrating now,memory mapping in the bios is enabled,and i dont have a option for physical line extension or anything

i have attachd some screen shots for you to look at

are they normal?

 

[FragTek]

Uhhhhh, in both those screenshots it's showing the correct amount of 4gb. I don't know what you are reading?

 

[AMDFTW]

well in the resource monitor shouldent the available be 4094?

or am i reading it wrong?

 

[tinytomlogan]

R.Mon looks fine to me fella.

 

[AMDFTW]

so i am using all 4gb of RAM?

 

[tinytomlogan]

yeppers.

 

[AMDFTW]

awsome cheers all

 

[FragTek]

Available means how much is physically able to currently be used, it factors in the amount currently used for your OS and open programs.

 

[alairauston]

I heard there were problems with that much ram on xp, though I haven't found much information on it.Win 98 does in fact have RAM limit of 2 GB, but as there is a bug in the memory management there may be problems when you install more

than 512 MB.

 

[alairauston]

Win 98 does in fact have RAM limit of 2 GB, but as there is a bug in the memory management there may be problems when we can install more than 512 MB.

 

[alairauston]

Win 98 does in fact have RAM limit of 2 GB, but as there is a bug in

the memory managenment there may be problems when you install more

than 512 MB.