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ok, win7 x64, 4GB of ram but windows acting like i have 2GB

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tommo123

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i keep going to the page file and in task manager i can only see usage that equates to around 2GB.

now, all was fine until i threw in a 6950 which has 2GB itself. it's almost like it's acting like a 32bit windows (4GB system ram minus the 2 on the graphics card).

there's nothing in windows to change this, is it possible to have an option in the bios to enable more than 4GB total memory ? i don't want to just go poking around you see.
 
What does Windows say for memory vs usable memory? If they're not the same you'll need to find the memory remapping option in your BIOS and enable that.
 
it was 98% used with a lot of "hard faults" which a google reveals as hitting the page file.

under resource monitor, it was all in use barr 10 meg or so reserved for some reason.

as for available memory, in task manager it says total 4094, cached 159, available 2182 with 2063 free. seems to be 4gig available
 
Hard faults just mean I/O occurred, whether in the pagefile or another file on disk. I meant on Computer properties, but yes, if taskmgr says 4094 is available then all 4G is being seen by Windows.
 
cheers.

this is whats weird. 4 gig can be used by windows, but from it maxed out with only 2 gig (that i could see) in use. seems to be back to normal now

had a look in the bios but couldnt see anything like that option. it existed on my old intel board but cant see it in this asrock one.
 
If Windows sees all 4G then the option is already on and possibly not able to be disabled if you can't find it.

And what are you considering a lot of hard faults? You realize that pretty much every I/O on the system that hits the disk is considered a hard fault, right? If an app reads 4M from disk that could require up to 1000 hard faults.
 
yeah, i got that from googling earlier. which was a relief as "hard faults" reads to me as a physical fault.

i'm going to throw more ram in anyway since ddr3 13333 is down to DDR2 lows here now, so would be rude not to throw in 8GB 🙂

ta for the help NM 🙂
 
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