8 GB on Vista x64 - why does msinfo32 report things funny?

[n7]

My question is very specific: why does msinfo32.exe report the odd numbers it does?

Here's what i see with Vista x64 + 8 GB + memory remapping enabled:
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For my own interest, i took screenies of other configs as well.
6 GB w/ remapping on
6 GB w/ remapping off (cannot boot into anything but safe mode - same for 8 GB)
4 GB w/ remapping off (can boot into OS normally)



Now that would appear to me that i only have 4 GB available to use, except that's not the case. I can easily confirm that by running applications to utilize well over 4 GB w/o issues, not to mention that task manager correctly reports total usage.

Of course, when i actually have only 4 GB installed, i obviously cannot utilize over 4 GB w/o the system slowing to a halt.

From what i can tell, msinfo32's "Total Physical Memory" appears to show the amount of RAM available over 4 GB, & not what is actually available as a total.
Or iow, it seems msinfo32 is actually incorrectly reporting things?

Wisdom from the gurus is always appreciated.

Thanx.

 

[XBoxLPU]

Here you go:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950233

You have to contact them to get the hotfix 🙂

 

[n7]

Thanx muchly.

My googling failed me; AT to the rescue 🙂

This has indeed corrected the "issue" (or should i say annoyance) 😛
Not sure why this hasn't already been fixed via Windows Update, but eh...

http://ense7en.com/pics/ram/ms...on%20with%20hotfix.jpg