Question for knowledged computer geeks

Diathorus · (This post was last modified: 07-03-2010, 11:30 PM by Diathorus.)

I have a problem: I have 2 GB of Ram in my pc, but windows 7 x64 says only 1gb is usable, even though bios, cpu-z, directx shows my ram as 2048 mb.
What's the matter?

Arpit · 07-03-2010, 11:48 PM #2

See.....Your 1 GB RAM may be dedicated to graphics....which it unnecessarily does....Can you post a screen where did you saw it..if you don't mind???

Diathorus · 07-03-2010, 11:57 PM #3

(07-03-2010, 11:48 PM)Arpit Wrote: See.....Your 1 GB RAM may be dedicated to graphics....which it unnecessarily does....Can you post a screen where did you saw it..if you don't mind???

Also added DxDiag log.

Arpit · 07-04-2010, 12:14 AM #4

Here I dig out the following...
1. run msconfig.exe
2. Select Boot rab
3. Select Advanced option button
4. If Maximum memory button is enabled, disable it.

This regulates the amount of RAM to be used by OS. I accidently set this to 256 and my PC was slow as a hell...!!!!!

Diathorus · 07-04-2010, 01:10 AM #5

(07-04-2010, 12:14 AM)Arpit Wrote: Here I dig out the following...
1. run msconfig.exe
2. Select Boot rab
3. Select Advanced option button
4. If Maximum memory button is enabled, disable it.

This regulates the amount of RAM to be used by OS. I accidently set this to 256 and my PC was slow as a hell...!!!!!

'twas already disabled Confused

**Diddy Kong** · 07-04-2010, 02:10 AM #6

Your motherboard probably shuts off at a certain amount of random access memory. What motherboard do you have?
And i must ask, have you ever been able to successfully use 2Gb of memory on that computer?

Diathorus · (This post was last modified: 07-04-2010, 02:54 AM by Diathorus.)

(07-04-2010, 02:10 AM)Diddy Kong Wrote: Your motherboard probably shuts off at a certain amount of random access memory. What motherboard do you have?
And i must ask, have you ever been able to successfully use 2Gb of memory on that computer?

It's new and my motherboard is Foxconn G31MX series.
No, because this ram was ''included'' with this pc. Ram=infineon and bios says something about dual channel 800 mhz
motherboard says this:
Dual channel DDR2 800/667 x 2 DIMMs, Max 4GB
I have 2x1 gb infineon 800 mhz so it should function.

naoan · 07-04-2010, 03:21 AM #8

Try booting with only one of them, test it with both ram.

Diathorus · (This post was last modified: 07-04-2010, 03:40 AM by Diathorus.)

(07-04-2010, 03:21 AM)naoan Wrote: Try booting with only one of them, test it with both ram.

This is very strange... whenever I remove one, does not matter which one, bios success boot success but afterwards you see cursor with black screen and nothing happens 0_o
This PC is cursed! lol

naoan · 07-04-2010, 04:47 AM **#10**

Maybe one of the ram slot is bad?