Which one is correct? They're both "physical" memory counts, why does one tell me there's more than half the ram left and the other tell me there's virtually none? Tuesday, November 17, PM. Hi, To make the issue clear, could you please collect the following information for our further research: 1.
The 2. Based on my research, I would like to suggest the following: 1. Just for a test, please try the following to have a check: How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7 At this time, please also check the memory usage. Please run Process Explorer to check which processes are using a lot of memory: 1 Download and run Process Explorer. Tuesday, November 24, AM. Compromise 0. Hi trwilson,.
Does the "Available" value on the Performance tab in Task Manager more closely match what Performance Monitor indicates? What value are you looking at in Perfmon?
If there's free memory, Windows will try to use it. If something else needs the memory, Windows will let the application use it. Free unused memory is really wasted memory. Wednesday, November 18, AM. Yes, the number from each of them are the same except the percentage total. Click on the Boot tab and then click on the Advanced Options button.
Click on the Maximum Memory option and type in the maximum amount of memory you noted earlier in the My Computer Properties window. When finished, click the OK button, close all remaining windows that you have opened, and restart your computer. Windows 7 bit does not always correctly identify the amount of memory you have installed in your PC. You can fix this problem by manually specifying how much memory Windows 7 bit should use by changing a value in the BOOT Advanced Options window.
Assuming you have no hardware or software errors, Windows 7 should then be able to correctly identify how much memory you have installed and the maximum amount of memory to use at boot up. Founder of Help Desk Geek and managing editor. He began blogging in and quit his job in to blog full-time.
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The help desk software for IT. Track users' IT needs, easily, and with only the features you need. Learn More ». AceOfSpades This person is a verified professional. Verify your account to enable IT peers to see that you are a professional. Does a reboot show all 8GB? Hi Yes, BIOS has 8gb, in windows properties is shows 8gb and after some weeks in use it goes down from 8 to 2.
Pure Capsaicin. I think you are just misreading the memory. To avoid confusion the op didn't post the pic, I was showing an example to see if this is similar to what they get - which I like you expected to see AceOfSpades wrote: Can you post a pic of the properties page?
This dedicated graphics card - what type, does your device also have on-board graphics? It seems something in the background can share system memory. This is from my other laptop, I'll get the desktop soon.
Have you checked the BIOS settings for graphics? By the way, if this was the 1GB dedicated you was talking about, its still shared from ram You said it goes down to 2.
Here is a snap shot. Hi everyone. Here is a pic. Thanks again very much to all. This topic has been locked by an administrator and is no longer open for commenting. Read these next
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