Not showing all available memory Vista Bugs and Problems Discuss Not showing all available memory in the Windows Vista forums; I am running Vista Home Premeium 64 bit. With 4 gigs of ram, but my system only seems to see 3039 mb of ram. Is this what Vista should see? ...

[YoMoma]

I am running Vista Home Premeium 64 bit. With 4 gigs of ram, but my system only seems to see 3039 mb of ram. Is this what Vista should see? Is there a certain amount of ram used that wont show because my system uses it elsewhere?
My mobo bios is the stock version that came on disk. I havent upgraded because I am unsure I can update it without corruptions. Someone once told me not to update if it`s running well. I figured with my mobo software I could at least see if the ram is running in dual channel mode. Dont see that anywhere in my bios.

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[ProCookie]

Sometimes your graphics card uses RAM as video memory, Try confiuring that with the Nvida driver software.

[felix8406]

You can read this article from Microsoft to get more info: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605

[Znod]

Originally Posted by YoMoma

I am running Vista Home Premeium 64 bit. With 4 gigs of ram, but my system only seems to see 3039 mb of ram. Is this what Vista should see? Is there a certain amount of ram used that wont show because my system uses it elsewhere?
My mobo bios is the stock version that came on disk. I havent upgraded because I am unsure I can update it without corruptions. Someone once told me not to update if it`s running well. I figured with my mobo software I could at least see if the ram is running in dual channel mode. Dont see that anywhere in my bios.

And, here is another good read: http://news.softpedia.com/news/64-bi...AM-64130.shtml

[Snuffy]

When you upgrade to SP1 that will be corrected. until then Memory Ram is SCREWED

[YoMoma]

Thanks guys. Good to know info. I have all the correct hardware to work with the 64 bit version of Vista. So I should be able to show all 4 gigs of ram. I`ll see if I can contact my motherboard maker to see how my setting should be set at for this to work right.