Can anyone help me? cause last time i was able to use 8gb ram. now its only 3.21gb...

[Maverick Mavs Ramirez Aranas]

Can anyone help me? cause last time i was able to use 8gb ram. now its only 3.21gb useable. already tried unchecking the box from the msconfig. anything else?

 

[Filipe Martins]

32 bit os

 

[Filipe Martins]

Probably you dedicated much ram to you igpu check bios and search something like igpu ram

 

[Maverick Mavs Ramirez Aranas]

is this it?

 

[Filipe Martins]

No in the bios of your system

 

[Jeffrey Rigby]

You are using a 32 bit windows 7 change to x64 problem solved

 

[Jeffrey Rigby]

your ram is faulty or you have the ram dims in different slots put them in the right slots if there is 2 white and two black make sure you use the ones close to your prosessor

 

[Jeffrey Rigby]

the dims go in the same colour slots

 

[Kyol Hodgson]

VGA allocation in the BIOS

 

[Shanmugam Krishnan]

if u have more confusion try linux live boot from USB n check RAM usage if still 3GB sure hardware problem or 8GB usage its will ur software/windows problem... simple basic troubleshoots... good luck...

 

[Shanmugam Krishnan]

what is ur motherboard model buddy...

 

[Luke Brown]

A few people have already said - but I'll re-confirm.. You're allocating that missing memory to your APU .. It is an option in the BIOS. Essentially acting in the place of VRAM which a GPU would have, the APU's GPU (built in) has to rely on your system memory - and steals it. You can allocate less .. or more..

 

[Andrew Delaney]

You sure it's 64bit windows? As sounds to me like your only running 32bit and that won't recognize that much

 

[Alan Clancy]

It is the apu using shared gfx. In other words it is dedicating you memory for use as gfx vram rather than inboard memory. The joys of using integrated laptop gpu

 

[Maverick Mavs Ramirez Aranas]

Thanks guys. Will check everything.