4gb from windows XP

[George Hallam]

hey guys i recently formatted my PC and before i formatted windows XP saw 3.25Gb of my 4Gb of RAM but now it only sees 2.75Gb. (yes i have vista but not installed at the moment its to much hasel :p)

I remember reading one of your posts a while back saying if you chnage an option or something you can see that extra 500Mb

any clues :D thanks

[Rick]

Depending on the bios
Some have a remap option
My x35 shows 3.5 with the remap enabled

[George Hallam]

ok i will have a look for the remap option in abit ;)

will tell you if it works

[Sylvander]

Hey George!

Who loves ya baby! :D :cool:
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[Ajmukon]

Hey George!

Who loves ya baby! :D :cool:
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[George Hallam]

lol tut tut i have changed my pic since then :p

http://file041b.bebo.com/14/large/2008/04/25/13/3693622968a7554841867l.jpg

[Sylvander]

Let there be light...

And all is revealed. :)
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[George Hallam]

haha i like the dark :p

my curtains are usally closed :D they shine on my screen

why do you keep putting photos of me on here ?:confused: :p

[Sylvander]

1. "i like the dark"
Ah, but...
That room wasn't dark when the photo was taken.
The reason the photo came out dark like that [I guess]...
Is because the photo snapper was using an automatic camera...
That was set to meter the average brightness of the whole screen area...
Rather than spot meter the centre of the screen area...
And the brightness of the window behind you was making the camera "think" the average [mean] value of the brightness was rather high/bright.
So it compensated by making the image too dark.
But a photo editing program [I use "Microsoft Photo Editor"] can be used to brighten the image [I increase the "Gamma" setting].

2. "why do you keep putting photos of me on here ?"
(a) Because you are quite a good looking chap, and handsome/beautiful people/things should be seen and enjoyed.

(b) Because I wanted you to be aware of the kind of consequences that tend to follow when you make such things available.

(c) I wanted you to see what can be done with a photo.
Did you think you couldn't be seen because the photo was dark?

[George Hallam]

Is because the photo snapper was using an automatic camera...

I took it with my camera phone which is not that good at taking photos (i broke my digital cam :rolleyes:)

(a) Because you are quite a good looking chap, and handsome/beautiful people/things should be seen and enjoyed.

:o :p thanks


(b) Because I wanted you to be aware of the kind of consequences that tend to follow when you make such things available.

Ye i know i have started being careful on what details i put in those sites. But i also put a link on here so people know who they are talking to and im not just a nameless face and show that i am a "geek that wears the cool glasses :p"

(c) I wanted you to see what can be done with a photo.
Did you think you couldn't be seen because the photo was dark?

That was sorta the plan lol but you have ruined my plan :p

[Heartborne]

Did that remap option do you any good, george? I started a thread not so long ago about this very thing but I never got anywhere with it.
I thought maybe I'd turn the topic back to memory and not the "Sylv hearts George" thread.

[George Hallam]

i looked and looked and i still didnt find any remap button or anything that even had anything to do with extending RAM in my OS.

well i should be getting my quad core soon so when i get that i am moving to vista anyway..

"Sylv hearts George" thread

neither did i :p

[Rick]

The Memory remap option should be in the Bios
Depending on your chipset


In Bios
Advanced, Chipset, North Bridge, Memory Remap

Results
http://home.wi.rr.com/nasons/sysprop.jpg


Note the 3.25 GB of Ram
Physical Address Extension

[George Hallam]

I had another look,

went
BIOS > advanced chipset features > memory settings and there was nothing only RAM timings and a couple of other things but no remapping

o well

my windows thing says this

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/3971/xp275gboframva2.jpg

[Rick]

The Only other thing I can think of is a registry hack
Changing the memory settings
But I can't find the link to it at the moment

And I am half asleep.. ( Working nights ) what fun

[Heartborne]

I don't think the BIOS has anything to do with it. Benchmark programs and maintenance programs running in the windows environment all see the whole of the RAM. I tried using the /pae switch, but to no avail.