4GB Ram shows 3?

Bizkitkid2001 · January 16th, 2009, 04:30 AM

How much do you have shared for your video memory? Some laptop graphic cards can share up to 1.8gb of system ram. Your video card could be set to use 1gb of ram, which is why only 3gb is show in task manager.

qiangru · January 21st, 2009, 08:25 PM

This is quite true!!!!

qiangru · January 21st, 2009, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by nemowolf

First off, "Vista" can and will handle more than 4GB of RAM when in a 64bit flavor. ALL 32bit OS's will handle a total of 4GB of memory;this includes on chip memory, video card memory, and finally your actual RAM. This is not something designed into Vista or XP, this is a limitation of 32bit operating systems inability to map memory beyond a certain numerical number ... 4GB.

Now, you should really be looking at the restrictions of Virtual PC because THAT is where your problem is. If your Bios and real install of Vista are registering 4gb but your Virtual PC install of something isnt, then you probably are not running a 64bit OS in Virtual PC. You really need to check what OS you are running virtually before you start flashing or updating things without needing those updates.

So, what OS are you running in VPC?

This is quite true!!!