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Memory in BIOS not in Vista

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montoyaclan

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I just replaced my defective motherboard with its replacement (same model) and notice 1 odd thing. If I go into the BIOS, the memory shows correct at 3 GB. However in Vista it only shows as 2 GB total. I am suspecting maybe the motherboard might yet be defective as it never was an issue before. I have looked through Bios but nothing jumps out at me or is this a Vista fix?

Thanks for any help

Gary
 
If you are running a 32 bit version of Vista the memory will read as 3 gigs in the BIOS but only two gigs in Vista because it allocates 1 Gig for itself.

Same as if you had 4 gigs. The BIOS would read 4 but Vista will recognize 3 and allocating the last gig for itself. There is a pretty heafty thread at Overclockers.com under their Windows forums about this very thing.

Only in the 64 bit version would Vista read 4 gigs.
 
Thanks Ultralight

Glad I am not going crazy. I just reloaded my system with the 32 bit Vista after taking the 64 bit off due to could not run Itunes and Realtime as well as other older software. You do not have the link by chance to that read?

Again thanks for your help.


Gary
 
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