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    What's Going On Here?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by SovereignGFC, Apr 25, 2011.

  1. SovereignGFC

    SovereignGFC Notebook Guru

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    I'm used to seeing about 2MB "reserved" here.

    I know that in the "larger scheme of things" it doesn't really matter (~34MB of missing RAM) but given that this laptop has Windows 7 Professional x64 with a Core 2 Duo CPU (T9400) riding the Intel PM45 chipset, why is this happening? And it makes me wonder what would occur in the future if I were to put 8GB of memory in this machine.
     
    SovereignGFC, Apr 25, 2011
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  2. DakkonA

    DakkonA Notebook Evangelist

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    I have 8 GB memory with 86 MB Hardware Reserved. My guess is that some devices are using system RAM to store information they need. This is a different issue than the VRAM/addressing issue with 32-bit machines.
     
    DakkonA, Apr 25, 2011
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    netnag Newbie

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    my monitor shows about 268mb hardwared reserved for 4gb
    should i worry about that?
     
    netnag, Apr 26, 2011
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    firesyde424 Notebook Guru

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    My config:
    SXPS 1647
    Core i5 540m
    8 GB Corsair DDR3
    Radeon 5730
    Intel XM25-G2 80 GB SSD

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    Not sure why mine is only using 12 mb
     
    firesyde424, Apr 27, 2011
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