computers do the strangest things !

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i have a asus p5w dh motherboard and with 4 gig of memory in it shows3200 on booting in the bios is says

system memory
size 4096
appropriated 896
available 3200

xp shows 3200

what is appropriated ? and where is my 896 ?:confused:

thanking anybody in advance for any light they can shed on this
 
Do you have a video card that uses partial shared memory or a dsp card like a UAD-1?

Anyways, part of your physical memory is always going to get used for hardware resources.
 
what's happening is the BIOS is reserving some memory off to the side for certain functions (PCIx, PCIe, PCI busses, video card ram, RAM shadowing etc.)

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hard2hear beat me to it ;)
 
ok

now if the bios is doing that ,i was thinking of doing the 3gig switch for apps but if the bios is controling the memory will the switch work ?
 
Actually, it's neither. Windoze XP just doesn't recognise anything higher than 3GB. However, since you have 4GB of RAM, edit the boot.ini file and add /3GB switch to it. That way, even if it is not available to you, 1GB of RAM will at least be used by the kernel and other low level functions.
 
not 100% sure of what i should change it to is this right

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP 3G" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /3GB /USERVA=3789
 
interesting. What chose you to use 3789? I'm pretty sure that setting will not work with UAD cards installed. I allocate 2900 with UADs and it seems to play happy.
 
Actually now that you mention it, that setting is too high. I'd like to find out if it works at all.

In any case, I'd just ditch the /USERVA switch altogether, as you're not gaining much by it. /3GB switch will force Windows to allocate 3GB for processes/applications. If you don't include that, the apps will only get around 2GB of memory allocated to them, so you're gaining 1GB with the switch anyway.
 
noisewreck said:
Actually, it's neither. Windoze XP just doesn't recognise anything higher than 3GB. However, since you have 4GB of RAM, edit the boot.ini file and add /3GB switch to it. That way, even if it is not available to you, 1GB of RAM will at least be used by the kernel and other low level functions.
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WILL YOU STOP THAT WITH YOUR SIG!!!!!!!

I'm beginning to break out in hives....... :(


:D
 
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