8 GB RAM Reported As 2038 MB?
Oct 5, 2009
My specs:
Vista Home Premium x64
Dell XPS 435T
i7 950 @3.07 GHz
RAM: 8 GB
The Problem: In my system specs for Windows it clearly says: 8GB ram
In the task manager when I check my physical memory it states:
Total: 2038 MB! wtf. This is really annoying. I have set my pagefile to 10gb and in the task manager it says 10gb so that one is correct. But what is up with this RAM problem? I don't get it? Am I missing something here? Please tell me. Cause My physical memory is always above 50% even when I don't do anything on the computer, really annoying, when I know I have 8GB installed...
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Feb 24, 2009
I have 8GB RAM (4x2GB sticks), works fine to my knowledge, and shows up on the main screen, and in the BIOS as 8GB. Good stuff. However, recently in order to try and improve boot speeds I went into the pagefile and set it as 0 after reading that it isnt needed with this ammount of ram. After rebooting I went into msconfig's advanced boot screen, set the number of processors to 4 and MAX RAM... but it would only see 3GB RAM.
I installed Everest to check this out and it reports that my physical RAM is 3GB, task manager reports the same. What went wrong, and how can I get all 8GB showing? My GPU is a 1GB 9800 card so wouldnt have thought the rest was going towards gfx. Ive taken out some sticks and tried again but Everest still only sees GB, even with 8gb, 6gb or 4gb inside?
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