I have 256 Meg RAM but it says 261,664 on the device manager...what's wrong with it???

[stingbandel]

Hi, I am using Win 2000 Pro and just notice on the device manager it says the memory is 261,664. What's wrong with that? Isn't it suppose to be 256? I am using Celeron 433 on Intel LX mobo. I also use 2 64 RAM generic and 1 128 Kingston. All of them are PC 100. Can someone explain to me what is happening with the memory? Thanks

Darno

 

[Buddha Bart]

everythings perfectly normal. 64meg of ram always shows up as 65 too.
Its one of those goofy "who's using what number system" things.
1024x1024 or 1024x1000. Some people consider one a meg, others the second.

bart

 

[Deceiver]

That's in Kbytes. Divide it by 1024, since 1 MB = 1024 KB, and you get 255.5 MB, which is the 256 MB that you have.

 

[Weyoun]

if you get 256*1024 (262144) and take away his number (261664) you get a 480KB discrepancy, I think this is the base mem taken just after POST (im walking in the dark here people, help me out if im wrong 🙂 )

 

[stingbandel]

ok then thanks for the info...

Darno