System recognises 3GB of ram instead of 4GB.

Giasos

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Hello everyone,

Few days ago a friend of mine gave me some new ram (Kingston's DDR2 1gb each 4 total) and i installed them to my pc and on the control panel says that it recognises 3GB instead of 4!My motherboard(Asus P5B premium) supports up to 8gb of ram and i have the 64bit windows version installed.

Anyone knows why i am having these problems?

Thank you in advance.
 

fatboyslim

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If you do not own a discrete video card then your system reserves a portion of your ram for use of its internal onboard video, i.e. on your motherboard.