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| My comp is supposed to be using 256 ram. However it only detects 192. I checked inside and it doesindeed have 256. Can anyone help?
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Maybe part of the chip has went bad. Just a possibility.
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What are you using to determine how much is detected? System properites?
I'd look your screen while booting up as the BIOS usually tells you how much RAM it has found and see what this result is. Or, look in your CMOS setup as it is usually noted there, too. If the amount seen by the BIOS is wrong, then you have a problem with either tRAM or the mother board (DIMM slots). The RAM itself can be tested by some computer shops. Sisoft Sandra mighth be able to run diags on it also, but I don't remember.
If teh BIOS sees teh right amount of RAM, then Windows is doing something funky with the info it gets from the BIOS/CMOS. I seem to remember an issue with one version of Windows in which this was relatively common (either 98 or ME, I think it was 98). Even though it reported teh wrong amount of RAM, it utilized teh full amount in the machine, however.
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Ok. Ive found that its taking out the video cards memory out of that number. Is that normal? Is there a way that I can run at 256 until I NEED my video card?
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It sounds like you have shared video memory with your system memory. Nothing you can do about it, you can lower the shared amount in the BIOS though.
 
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You have shared memory with your graphics card which uses 64mb.
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| Onboard video chips often use system memory. If you have an AGP slot on the motherboard you might consider buying a video card and disabling the onboard chip. You should also get better video performance from a card.
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