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    i just installed 4gb of ram and have some questions....

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by king.incar, Aug 28, 2008.

  1. king.incar

    king.incar Notebook Enthusiast

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    i added 4 gb but only 3061 mb show? i know vista only uses like 3.5 but less than 3 is that right? and how do you check if the sticks are good? how do you use memtest+ or windows memory diagnostic? i look at tutorials but i have no idea how to do it... if someone could dumb it done for me in would be greatly appreciative

    Specs are

    Sony vaio Cr
    Vista sp1 Home premium
     
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    king.incar Notebook Enthusiast

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    here is a pic

    and i did notice a 30 percent decrease in ram usage... like when i ran firefox my total would be like 60 but now its like 40
     

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    stewie What the deuce?

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    Bog Losing it...

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    For the built-in Vista utility, go to Start> Control Panel> Administrative Tools> Memory Diagnostics Tool. A prompt will show up asking if you want to restart; this is necessary because, in order to fully test the RAM it must be unused by the OS.
     
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    MSFT Software Engineer or not, my 32-bit Vista pulls up 3.6gb.

    Too bad MSFT doesn't have a tool that makes the 32-bit to 64-bit Vista transition seamless :(
     
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    3.6GB, thats low - and I mean low man....
    This guy is seeing almost 3.8GB (a full 200MB more !!) :D
     
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    Nice! :D

    It's 3.75 to be exact, 175 MB more. :p
     
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    Oh yeah !! My bad.... :D
     
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    The amount of ram you end up depends on how your motherboard does the hardware mapping.

    Different hardware will give you different results varying from 3 to 3.7ghz
     
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    but less than 3?? i checked the memory and its good maybe its my motherboard or some ****...

    **** vaio cr490
     
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    32-bit Vista can recognize, theoretically, up to 3.5GB. After that, it's system-by-system as to how much is recognized in Windows itself. I beleive it depends on your chipset, BIOS, and possibly even Windows Vista system settings.
     
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