RAM problem?

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Guys,

I bought a brand new Compaq Presario R3145 laptop yesterday. Running Win XP Home SP1a.

CPU: 3.0 GHz
RAM: 512MB
HDD: 60GB

Anyway, when I went to Control Panel and System it says I've only got 384MB RAM. Does this indicate there is a problem? Is the RAM faulty?

Can anyone shed any light?

Regards,
Ash.

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is the VGA embedded on mainboard?, if so, that vga steal 128 MB to the whole
ram system
in your case: 128 MB, go to device manager, expand VGA ant watch its
properties, or if you have AIDA32 can see in GPU the ram assigned to vga


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"Wolfman" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:35128816-0EDF-4EF0-8F68-3581332EAD7C@microsoft.com...
> Guys,
>
> I bought a brand new Compaq Presario R3145 laptop yesterday. Running Win
> XP Home SP1a.
>
> CPU: 3.0 GHz
> RAM: 512MB
> HDD: 60GB
>
> Anyway, when I went to Control Panel and System it says I've only got
> 384MB RAM. Does this indicate there is a problem? Is the RAM faulty?
>
> Can anyone shed any light?
>
> Regards,
> Ash.

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

It is possible to have dedicated RAM for CPU and Graphics, however it then requires more space to accomodate two sets of memory modules and the data busees for each set.

As Video RAM and system RAM are now both using DD-RAM, why waste space: so go out and buy a memory module to inprove your system memory size and not have to worry about the 128Mb lost to video.