Microsoft XP: Why does MsInfo32 show less RAM then I have installed?

  • davidvair / 204 / Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:34:00 GMT / Comments (0)
  • Is some of the memory shared for the video?
    Dave Vair
    CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+

    "newsgroup" <marco_giachetti...virgilio.it> wrote in message
    news:4597c6af$0$19094$4fafbaef...reader4.news.tin.it ...
    > My notebook is a Packard Bell Easynote S4810 with Windows XP Home Edition sp 2.
    > It has on bord 512 MB of RAM, two modules 256 MB each.
    > Is there anyone that can tell me why if I run Msinfo32 it shows only 256,50 MB. ?
    > Note that:
    > - both Bios than Task Manager show more than 510,000 KB of phisical memory
    > - removing one of the two RAM modules the computer is much slower.
    > Thanks to everybody
    > Marco
    >
    >

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