Reduced Ram!

[Spock4]

Hi I own a AMD Athlon 2000 + XP
My motherboard is Elite (ESC) K7SEM.
I have put in 256 SDR RAM in my comp
And when I checked in my computer information I see 224 RAM !?
WHATS GOING ON!

HOW DO I GET MY 256 RAM BACK!

[Triadcool]

Maby its just reading it wrong. Or there might be something wrong with the ram. Use memtest 86 to see if your ram is good.

[bigdawgfoxx]

well on my computer...and EVERYONE elses that i have ever seen...it is always reduced by 1MB....256 would be 255. 512 would be 511. I duno bout that much though...

[peat moss]

Onboard video? I have 512 mb and 64mb onboard video using 16 mb of ram so mines reading 496 mb

[bigdawgfoxx]

Peatmoss on his first post might have solved a problem! lol yeah that sounds right to me...onboard...GAHD

[clocker]

Maybe you could try moving the memory stick to a different slot.

[Virtualbody1234]

Yeah, it's probably 'shared' memory for the graphics card.

Good on you, peat moss.

Welcome to the discussion board.

[_John_Lennon_]

It reads it one MB short because that first 640K is convential memory, and the 640-1028 is extended. (either expanded or exteneded, I always get those mixed up in my Computer Engeineering Tech class.)

Thats why its not reading that first MB though.

[Spock4]

YOUR SO RIGHT! THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE! CAUSE IM DISABLING MY ONBOARD GRAPHICS CARD! its taking 32mb ! of my ram..

so if i disable my onboard graphics card... il get my 256 ram back?

[bigdawgfoxx]

Hmm about that...I have onboard but i bought a card...and i right clicked on it under device properties and clicked disable...did that disable it and its not using ram nemore?