People with more than 256mb ram running XP

[LordEdmond]

please check in the system info page and see how it reports the Physical memory installed?


the page on contol panel system reports correctly in my system 512mb but sys info reports 256mb ??




LE

 

[Dre]

This is what I have in System Information:

total phyiscal memory = 512.00MB

available physical memory = 263.87MB

 

[LordEdmond]

thanks seem I have a problem


I have

total phyiscal memory = 256.00MB

available physical memory = 318.42MB

Very strange

 

[DJE007]

Total Physical Memory
1,024.00 MB

Available Physical Memory
771.73 MB

Total Virtual Memory
2.15 GB

Available Virtual Memory
1.76 GB

Page File Space
1.15 GB

Page File
C:\pagefile.sys

 

[Shack70]

OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 6 Stepping 2 AuthenticAMD ~1472 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 07.00T, 4/2/2001
Total Physical Memory 512.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 335.46 MB

 

[Edman]

OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name ZS-W52KBKL6PXD6
System Manufacturer VIA Technologies, Inc.
System Model KT333-8233
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 6 Stepping 2 AuthenticAMD ~1599 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG, 3/26/2002
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\System32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume12
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.0 (xpclient.010817-1148)"
User Name ZS-W52KBKL6PXD6\Edgar
Time Zone Mountain Daylight Time
Total Physical Memory 640.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 414.95 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.15 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.75 GB
Page File Space 1.53 GB
Page File D:\pagefile.sys

 

[LordEdmond]

Thanks guys
seems that XP is not reporting the mem correctly after installing the pc1066 ram but sisoft sandra is ok as are parts of XP


thanks again

LE

 

[Dark1]

I'm not sure if there is a problem here. You may have 512 mb of ram but because of all the processes running in the background most of these processes are running in memory. You are not going to have all of it avalble for you to use. alt ctrl del and got to processes this will show you what is using your memory if you want to stop a process right click on the process and click stop process tree. This won't work unless you click on the main process of the program you want to get rid of and it won't work if it is a process that xp uses to run.
I'm sorry if that is not your question but hey couldn't hurt.

 

[sakic19]

i have the same problem in my other system. it has 384 but sys info only reports 256. it shows the right amount in both control panel systems page and task manager's performance tab. anybody figured that out yet?

 

[Amused]

Total Physical Memory 1,024.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 790.67 MB
Total Virtual Memory 3.40 GB
Available Virtual Memory 3.06 GB
Page File Space 2.40 GB

 

[HdwGuy]

I noteced the same thing before I reformated my HD and did a clean install of XP. (at first it was an upgrade from Windows 98 (BAD IDEA)) System Info now shows the correct memory size. Also before the clean install the ADD/REMOVE Programs was blank even though I had added new programs. Both work correctly now.

 

[Dark1]

oops

 

[erikistired]

xp does the same thing with my cpu. it's a speedstep cpu so it can change speed, well parts of xp report it correctly (as does sandra) but other parts report it at the slower speed. fun times.