palestranger 0 Report post Posted October 30, 2004 I have this old pc at my mom's. Windows states the machine has only 56 megs of RAM, but there is 64 installed...how can this be Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
r3d1405241470 0 Report post Posted October 30, 2004 do you sure that the memory installed is 64?if yes. check if the video memory is shared(built-in video card) to the external memory. if yes.check the memory if it is sharing 8MB to the video memory. 64 - 8 = 56 :)if no check if the memory is chunk into pieces(32+16+8+8).then back here post more info about your pc. os and other things... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deivid1405241470 0 Report post Posted October 30, 2004 Probably you've a integrated motherboard, it's mean that the video card is inside of the motherboard and the video card requiere memory (video ram or VRAM) to work, but in this configuration the integrated video card take ram from the system. In your case the video card is taking 8 mb. You can go to the bios setup and configure the amount of video ram shared, generally he options are 2 - 4 - 8 - 16 - 32 ..... MbGreets Deivid Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
palestranger 0 Report post Posted October 30, 2004 i'm at my dad's now but i will check out as soon as i can...is it possible one of my ram chips is just broken? I have opened my case and it says 64..And i don't think i have seen a video card.. So i guess this 8 megs is used for video ram...thanks guys Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pedro1405241472 0 Report post Posted November 4, 2004 I have this old pc at my mom's. Windows states the machine has only 56 megs of RAM, but there is 64 installed... how can this be <{POST_SNAPBACK}> check the memory if it is sharing 8MB to the video memory. 64 - 8 = 56 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
