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    Clevo P170HMx: 7,25gb of 8gb ddr3 usable?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by DEagleson, Nov 8, 2011.

  1. DEagleson

    DEagleson Gamer extraordinaire

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    I did a BIOS / EC/KBC update the other day to maybe cure my SSD freezing.
    (Intel SSD 510 btw.)

    Im using BIOS 1.01.10 & EC/KBC V 1.00.09.

    Now Windows reports that im not using all my memory anymore, and i think Windows 7 Professional SP1 x64 supports up to 16gb or something.

    Anyone got any helpful tips?
     
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  2. Anthony@MALIBAL

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    This may not necessarily be unusual. Some devices draw from the main memory pool to allocate to themselves. Integrated graphics is the most common, though not the only culprit (and not at all likely on these machines). What is your exact configuration?
     
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  3. DEagleson

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    Hardware:
    Intel Core i7 2720QM
    AMD Radeon HD 6970m
    8gb of DDR3 ram (1600MHz on Intel XTU now)
    Intel SSD 510 120gb
    Seagate Momentus XT 500gb

    Software:
    Windows 7 x64 Professional SP1
    Google Chrome and Steam + Origin

    Thats basically all i got on it.
    I know i had 8gb usable before the BIOS update, but i dont want to downgrade because the new BIOS is much more stable with my SSD.
     
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    It sounds like in that case, it's not your hardware. Check out this link to see if it helps at all.

    The usable memory may be less than the installed memory on Windows 7-based computers

    It could very easily be the Bios, but that's an issue I haven't seen before.
     
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    I have a sneaking suspicion it may be related to your GPU driver. I assume you've probably updated that to the latest Catalyst release? If not that may be it. Sometimes when a card's driver isn't updated Windows will allocate some memory to act as vRAM.
     
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    Thanks for posting.
    According to Windows i got a total of 8gb ram, so it might be that my AMD driver dident take the bios update that great.
    Il confirm with a Live Linux distro image or something.

    Until then i wont really pay attention to it. 7,25gb of memory is plenty anyhow.

    Edit: I disabled an option in the BIOS called "Legacy USB Support" and Windows finally boots with 8gb usable again.
    Idk if it was a bug with the latest BIOS but since i dont even know if i even used legacy USB stuff il keep it off.
     
    DEagleson, Nov 9, 2011
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