I recently bought myself a used computer, and after tweaking and monkieing around with it, I have found a major issue. My ram is steadily dropping. I bought it with 520 or so and added till I got up to a little over 1 gig. Then I was checking out some other stuff in dxdiag and it was only running at 1 gig. I checked it again today, and I am down to 900. Any idea why?
in reality, some ram is probobly just failing.its probobly nuthing you cant fix though, why not take out the ram and you know, blow on it or something? it needs cooling.ram's cheap, lest its a dell.
Name:
Anonymous2006-02-25 23:03
do yours haeva dell?!?! Or a laptop? Or is your card HYPARMEMORIES!?!? Depending on your graphics, it can share (read: steal) physical ram for itself. I wouldn't trust Windows, check your ram at POST or in the BIOS. If it's fine there, then whatever it stealing it in Windows probably needs it.
Name:
Anonymous2006-02-26 0:33
BIOS reads it, but why would windows be staling more and more.
And yes, I used memtest86.
The computer is a second hand one (Not a dell, HP), would the mother board be damaged in anyway to cause this?
Name:
Anonymous2006-02-26 2:51
If the BIOS reads it fine, it's not hardware.
Where are you checking? Look in System Properties (SysDM.CPL) and that's what's right.
Name:
Anonymous2006-02-26 15:29
What would it be labeled under? I only checked DX.
Name:
Anonymous2006-02-27 2:10
Right click my computer and choose properties, or type sysdm.cpl in your run prompt.
Name:
Anonymous2006-02-28 19:24
I know that, but what would the ram be titeled as in there?
Name:
Anonymous2006-03-01 3:37
Look in the tab that's open by default when you launch sysdm.cpl , the last row of text should be something like 1,048,576 KB
Name:
Anonymous2006-03-02 20:50
No, it only reads the 960.
Name:
Anonymous2006-03-03 3:07
does it have integrated video? some crappy builtin video cards will steal memory when it feels like it.
Name:
Anonymous2006-03-07 19:55
I recently got a new ATI card, so the onboard should give it back if it has any (I disabled the onboard and everything).