Precision 7560 & 7760 Owners' Thread

My 7760 shipped and I should have tomorrow.

7/2/21 Ordered
7/2/21 Confirmed
7/5/21 In Production
7/20/21 Notice Build is Complete
7/21/21 Notice Shipped
7/23/21 Carrier Estimated Delivery

Still no movement on my two 7560. Both not in production. One ordered on 6/16/21 and other on 7/6/21.

 

I think it's just something to do with the different ways manufacturers and windows measure memory. The MiB, Mb, MB thing

Edit: ignore this, it's wrong

 

Not in this case. They pull this with HDDs/SSDs, but everyone treats memory (RAM) sizes the same way.

This happens when some of the memory is reserved for use by something else. I think some memory is reserved for the Intel GPU, if it is active. [Edit] (Also — What EyeOfBeholder says better, below.)

 

You can find an eq app (haven't searched for one yet) that allows you to pretty much do the same thing.

 

I think it's because modern Intel consumer CPUs support only 128 GB physical address space and Windows 10 reserves 1 GB for itself (kernel and device IO). Hence 1 GB of memory goes unused.

 

Thanks a lot.

This screenshot is from the 7740:

The equivalent figure for the 7760 is 815 MB.

Is that what you're taking about?

Thanks

 

My 7760 won't boot up with an external HDD plugged in. With it plugged in, the screen just goes black after the BIOS password prompt. Without it plugged in, it boots fine. HDD works fine if I plug it in after the system has booted.

Is there a BIOS setting I should change??

This is the current boot sequence, if that's relevant.



Thanks a lot

 

That explains why 1GB is always gone... never knew that before

 

Hardware reserved ram is part of it. And other things like page table data.

Here is pretty long article about physical and virtual memory in Windows 10. It's not an easy read, but it does explain a lot about windows memory management.

 

Heh, good refresher of my operating systems class I took last year