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Postby luckeydawg20 » Sun Jan 28, 2007 2:57 pm

ok, stupid question. well not for me, lol.  i just added more memory to my system, 768mb is what's in it, but it's reading 704mb. why is that ? thank you in advance for any help.
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Re: memory

Postby jimcooper1 » Sun Jan 28, 2007 3:00 pm

My guess is you have a 64MB on-board video card which is utilising your RAM..  768-64=704
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Postby luckeydawg20 » Sun Jan 28, 2007 3:02 pm

i disabled my onboard graphics card when i installed my ati 9250 card.
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Postby ctjoyce » Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:28 pm

Even still, your onboard is buffering 64MB of your system RAM, as a just in case. You can turn this down to 8MB in your BIOS.

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Re: memory

Postby waspiflab » Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:33 pm

He's right it will eat it.
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Postby luckeydawg20 » Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:39 pm

well when i get into bios what am i looking for. sorry, i'm a newbie. please walk me through it. i have a graphics and souns card, so i don't need any onboard stuff, but really dont know what im looking for in there.
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Re: memory

Postby ctjoyce » Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:51 pm

What motherboard do you have. If you don't know, google CPU-Z Download the program, fire it up, and click the motherboard tab. Its in there.

Once I know what BIOS I'm working with, I can give you a real answer.

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Re: memory

Postby luckeydawg20 » Sun Jan 28, 2007 5:07 pm

micro-star international  model ms-7142
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Re: memory

Postby luckeydawg20 » Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:45 pm

find out anything yet ct ?
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Re: memory

Postby ctjoyce » Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:30 pm

Dosn't look like you can adjust your video memory.

Sorry dude.

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