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    Is my resource manager messed?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Jack, Feb 1, 2011.

  1. Jack

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    Anyone else see anything weird? I mean, look at that total physical memory, and the non-paged kernel memory. I compared it to someone else's, where I could find sense, but this...
     
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    There was a problem a while ago that Microsoft had fixed with the PC displaying the wrong amount of memory.

    What OS are you running? Any service packs? 32 or 64bit?

    Have you updated Windows fully?

    How much RAM do you actually have installed?
     
    Marcham93, Feb 6, 2011
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    This is my older computer, running windows XP 32-bit. It is on SP3.
    I have 256mb ram installed. Windows is not fully updated, and not really worth it to get this fixed... So, you do think it is messed up?
     
    Jack, Feb 6, 2011
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    I think you should try updating windows first and seeing if that makes a difference. It may be as simple as a hot fix or patch is needed.
     
    Marcham93, Feb 6, 2011
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    Ok, I am running Windows Update now.
     
    Jack, Feb 6, 2011
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    Great! Let me know what happens, so I can continue to try and assist you.
     
    Marcham93, Feb 6, 2011
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    This could take a while...
     
    Jack, Feb 6, 2011
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    How much RAM do you think you should have?
     
    JKleiss, Feb 7, 2011
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    He said he has 256mb installed.
     
    Marcham93, Feb 8, 2011
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    I don't see any messed up info in the resource manager.
     
    coolguy, Feb 8, 2011
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    You don´t think it stating 260096 memory is messed up?
     
    Jack, Feb 8, 2011
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    I knew it was not exact, but I don't know that it is .
     
    Jack, Feb 8, 2011
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    Whoops missed that.

    The way I see it is 256*1024KiB =262144KiB the actual RAM is this, but available is only 260096KiB due to hardware reserved memory

    KiB = KibiByte = 1024 Bytes
    1024KiB in 1 MebiByte

    Windows calculates correctly (using binary) but names incorrectly. MB should be MiB, KB should be KiB etc
     
    JKleiss, Feb 8, 2011
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    So, they just simplified KiB into K? -_-
     
    Jack, Feb 9, 2011
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    No they have stated KB (K) thousands of bytes.
    KB=1000bytes
    KiB=1024bytes
    MB=1000KB
    MiB=1024KiB

    Your 256MB ram is actually 256MiB
    so 256*1024=262144 wich is in KiB, but windows has named it K
     
    JKleiss, Feb 10, 2011
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