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    R3 RAM question

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by 79cj7, Oct 5, 2011.

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    79cj7 Notebook Enthusiast

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    So, I was playing minecraft and decided to take a berak and closed my M11x. Later I opened it up and it froze for about five minutes and I ended up doing a hard shut down. This happened again later and I waited it out and I opened the task manager and it said it was using 3.93 Gbs of RAM out 4GB. Just wondering why? anyone else had this problem?
     
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    You are most likely not using 3.93GB out of 4.00GB of RAM. A lot of that RAM is most likely being used by Windows SuperFetch, a caching mechanism built into the OS.

    If you can even get to the Task MAnager, then your system has not frozen up.

    The next time this happens, please take a screenshot of Task Manager and post it up here. The two most important parts to screenshot are going to be the Processes tab, and the Performance tab.

    I suspect that you are barking up the wrong tree here... I doubt that RAM or RAM usage would cause these kinds of hang-ups you are mentioning, since I highly doubt that you are actually using 3.93GB RAM for actual programs (not Windows SuperFetch). But starting iwth Task Manager screenshots would be a good place to start.
     
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    How do you take a screenshot?
     
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    Btw, minecraft normally runs around .95 GB of RAM
     
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    Ok. Those screenshots are telling me that you are not running out of RAM.

    The number that is important is the Available number. And in both cases, you have 2.3GB and 0.7GB of RAM available for use. Those numbers listed under Cached 516MB and 829MB, are the amounts of memory being used by Windows SuperFetch.

    Whatever is causing your computer to lock up, isn't because you are running out of RAM. Is there anything else going on when your computer locks up? Does the fan spin up? Does your entire computer freeze up, or just Minecraft? Can you launch or run any other applications, like a Web Browser?
     
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    Some of your ram is used for the integrated intel gpu. Thats why you dont see 4 gbs in windows.
     
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    When i open up the screen it just takes a while for it to load the page to type in the password to unlock it and it normally runs at that .7 but once i take it out of sleep mode it doesn't go back down.
     
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