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    Vista Help!! Physical Memory

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by karlster, Mar 17, 2007.

  1. karlster

    karlster Newbie

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    To all Vista users - I recently bought a Samsung Laptop R20 -

    The spec says it has 1gb of RAM - But when I go to Task Manager under physical Memory (MB) it's got 765mb as Total memory.

    I tried opening up the back to investigate but I don't have the right size philips screw driver to open it.

    Where else can I find the total memory?

    Thanks
     
    karlster, Mar 17, 2007
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  2. Sylenxor

    Sylenxor Notebook Guru

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    If I'm not mistaken, the ATi Radeon X1250 integrated graphics chip might be using up 256 MB of your RAM.
     
    Sylenxor, Mar 17, 2007
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  3. karlster

    karlster Newbie

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    thanks pal - you could be right...
     
    karlster, Mar 17, 2007
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  4. coriolis

    coriolis Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Syl's got it, its your GPU siphoning your RAM as VRAM.
     
    coriolis, Mar 17, 2007
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  5. vespoli

    vespoli 402 NBR Reviewer

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    If you are concerned about the "stolen memory" look in the BIOS for an option to reduce/deny the amount of system memory it wants to steal.
     
    vespoli, Mar 17, 2007
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