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Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by treezy, Sep 23, 2006.

  1. treezy

    treezy Regular member

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    My sister bought a 1 gig stick of PNY ram.
    for some reason when i check properties under my computer.
    it only shows 992 MB of ram. I think it suppose to say 1gb of ram.
    Is there somthing wrong with the ram. It is PNY :( and all.
    or does it just do that sometimes.

    Thanks
    any advice would be greatly appreciated
     
    treezy, Sep 23, 2006
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  2. Niobis

    Niobis Active member

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    There's nothing wrong with the stick. It's just that something is using it, maybe your antivirus program. For example: I have 2 256 MB sticks, but only showing 504 RAM. This is becasue NOD32 is using 8 MB of the 512.
     
    Niobis, Sep 24, 2006
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  3. elokito

    elokito Regular member

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    the onboard video takes some ram its ok and normal
     
    elokito, Sep 24, 2006
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  4. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    onboard video is using the ram so treezy is using 32 meg for video & Niobis is using 8 meg.
     
    ddp, Sep 24, 2006
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  5. treezy

    treezy Regular member

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    Oh OK,
    that makes sense.
    she does have ondoard video
    Yes thank you
     
    treezy, Sep 24, 2006
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  6. elokito

    elokito Regular member

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    treezy reduce sig r u kiding me? ure sig is way beyond limits
     
    elokito, Sep 24, 2006
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  7. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    treezy, reduce sig to 5 lines max.
    1. Text-only signatures should have at most 5 lines of text
     
    ddp, Sep 24, 2006
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  8. Niobis

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    @ddp, no, my onboard video is not using 8 MB.

    When I bought this computer it always showed 512 MB. Then, when I was using Panda Antivirus+Antispyware 2006 it was always showing 504 and sometimes 503. When I switched to AVG Free it showed 512 again. Now, I'm using NOD32 and showing 504 MB.
     
    Niobis, Sep 24, 2006
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  9. skater685

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    shit man,my pc has 2gb of ram,but at any given time,at least arond 500mb is used up..lol
     
    skater685, Sep 25, 2006
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