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From: Drew on 16 May 2010 19:31
First off are you absolutely sure you are running 64bit??

<someone(a)somewhere.com> wrote in message
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> I had 4GB physical memoryon the PC. With Windows vista 32 bit,
> available memory is shown as 3.3GB. I asked on usenet and was told
> that only under 64 bit windows, will the available memory be 4GB.
>
> When I upgraded to windows 7, I chosed 64 bit (I did clean install of
> course), but the available memory shown in the system is still 3.3 GB.
> This is show in both task manager under performance->Physical
> memory->total, and 'property of My Computer'->Installed memory
> (4GB/3.3 GB usable)
>
> Why is this and is there a way to make the full 4GB available?
>
> It's possible that my video card is using RAM instead of its own video
> RAM. This video card may not have its own memory.
>
> Now I just replaced a new video card with 512 MB of its own memory,
> the memory available becomes 2.8GB. Again, this is shown in both
> task manager under performance->Physical memory->total, and 'property
> of My Computer'->Installed memory (4GB/2.8 GB usable).
>
> The PC is Dell Inpirson 530. The only BIOS setting applicable to this
> is:
> DVMT Mode: FIXED, DVMT (DVMT by default)
> DVMT/FIXED Memory Size: 128 MB, 256 MB, MAX (128 MB by default)
>
> Looked up DVMT on the web, doesn't seem change the setting will help.
>
>
> Thanks.

From: Heywood Jablowme on 17 May 2010 17:31


"Stan Starinski" <China(a)stealsUSJobsPatentsSoftwareMusicVideo> wrote in
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> Peter,
>
> You're excellent. Your expertise continues to help so many Windows users.
>
> May the Lord richly bless you.

May you psychiatrist richly restrain you.


From: Stan Starinski on 17 May 2010 21:39
God bless us.

May the Lord keep blessing you until you're thoroughly blessed.

Have a nice day.

P.S. Keep warm as Ice Age is coming.
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