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a simple RAM problem
Hello, Friendly Support members. I'm sure that most of you have heard of this problem before, so I'll be brief. The family PC in my house has been running unusually slow lately, so I was doing some basic speed tweaks when I noticed that in the System menu, the computer is said to have only a measily 96 MB of RAM installed, when it actually has 128 MB. Sure, these are both extremely small numbers, but I think it would make a noticeable difference if every precious meg of RAM was functioning properly. Do any of you fine ladies and gents know of a snappy way to fix this problem? BTW, the PC's RAM is antique PC2100 (running at approximately 244 Mhz).
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it may be dedicating 32 megs to the video card...
does it have an onboard agp video card?
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08-20-2004, 09:51 PM
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No, it actually has a chinsy 8MB onboard card, but I do have bios set to use 32MB for the card. In case you find this important to the issue, the video card is a "S3 Graphics ProsavageDDR". I'm pretty sure, however, that the 32MB of shared memory isn't why it claims to have 96MB or RAM, because my fairly powerful gaming rig also shares 32MB of memory with the graphics card, but the System menu still says that it has a full 512MB of DDR-SDRAM installed.
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08-20-2004, 09:55 PM
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easy way to find out....
set it to share 16 megs with the video, and see if the number of installed ram is there changes.
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