Hi guys. I have something weird going on on my computer.
I have 4gb of RAM and under Windows XP Pro initially it was reported as 3.7Gb which is fine because of the i875 chipset limitations. But after I added Diamond Stealth Ati 9250 256mb PCI card in the computer with Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic, Windows started reporting that I have 3.25gb of RAM. This is very strange. I took out the graphics card and Windows reported 3.7Gb as usual.
The 9250 card has 256mb of video memory but it looks like for some reason it's eating into my system memory. I just can't figure out why this is happening.
Even weirder when I switched the card into a different PCI slot, Windows reported 3.12 Gb of RAM..WTH?!
It's important also to mentioned that when I leave only 2 gb of RAM in the system this doesn't happen. I have full memory. So this happens only when I have all 4 dimms filled.
Can someone enlighten me here about what might be happening.
Thanks.
Configuration in question:
Dual Xeons 3.6 Nocona
ASUS NCCH-DL mobo
ATI X800XT PE AGP (primary card)
Diamond Stealth 9250 256mb PCI (secondary card)
4 Gb RAM OCZ Performance series.
I have 4gb of RAM and under Windows XP Pro initially it was reported as 3.7Gb which is fine because of the i875 chipset limitations. But after I added Diamond Stealth Ati 9250 256mb PCI card in the computer with Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic, Windows started reporting that I have 3.25gb of RAM. This is very strange. I took out the graphics card and Windows reported 3.7Gb as usual.
The 9250 card has 256mb of video memory but it looks like for some reason it's eating into my system memory. I just can't figure out why this is happening.
Even weirder when I switched the card into a different PCI slot, Windows reported 3.12 Gb of RAM..WTH?!
It's important also to mentioned that when I leave only 2 gb of RAM in the system this doesn't happen. I have full memory. So this happens only when I have all 4 dimms filled.
Can someone enlighten me here about what might be happening.
Thanks.
Configuration in question:
Dual Xeons 3.6 Nocona
ASUS NCCH-DL mobo
ATI X800XT PE AGP (primary card)
Diamond Stealth 9250 256mb PCI (secondary card)
4 Gb RAM OCZ Performance series.
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