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    ¿RAM missed? Please Help me

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Cmagamez, May 15, 2011.

  1. Cmagamez

    Cmagamez Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi guys, lately i've being feeling my PC kinda slow, when i am updating the AV (MAcfee) it use to get laggy if i am playing games, so i deiced to check y RAM etc, i went into the control panel and i found my 8GB there, but, inside () it say (able to use 2.99 GB), on task manager it say almost the same, total 3006 and available 1500, HWInfo32 show me both DIM's, but, why i dont get at least 6.5 GB able to use?, is this normal or there is something wrong?.

    i Take off both rams and tried to boot the laptop with one at time in each slot, both boot ok, just once time i got blinking caps lock, num and scroll, but i swicthed the RAM and was ok.

    Thans for your help

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    Cmagamez, May 15, 2011
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  2. Bartlett

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    Is there an option for memory remapping in the BIOS?

    Try resetting your BIOS to default settings.
     
    Bartlett, May 15, 2011
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  3. Cmagamez

    Cmagamez Notebook Evangelist

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    No memory remapping at bios, i check and nothing, but i've solved it trought windows; i cant remind from where i got the idea to deal with the msconfig settings and boot options, i had this set to maximun 4GB of ram, all what i did was change it to 8GB and now it's ok :)

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    That's great, I am glad you fixed your problem.
     
    Bartlett, May 15, 2011
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