memory display smaller than actual

I use Win XP SP2. My notebook pc came with 512 mb ram. I later added
another 512mb but in my systems (Control Panel/System), it only show ram at
896mb and not 1024mb.

Is something wrong with my new memory?

1024 - 896 = 128MB allocated to your video adapter.
This is normal and nothing to fret over.

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"Sachi Noma" wrote:

| I use Win XP SP2. My notebook pc came with 512 mb ram. I later added
| another 512mb but in my systems (Control Panel/System), it only show ram at
| 896mb and not 1024mb.
|
| Is something wrong with my new memory?

What is the size of the memory for the video card? This sounds right if the
video card is using 128MB for its RAM.


On 11/11/2005 "Sachi Noma" <snospam@kamakura.net> wrote:
>I use Win XP SP2. My notebook pc came with 512 mb ram. I later added
>another 512mb but in my systems (Control Panel/System), it only show ram at
>896mb and not 1024mb.
>
>Is something wrong with my new memory?
>

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Y.

My graphic memory is 128mb.

Thank you.

"Yves Leclerc" <yvesleclercNOSPAM@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:O025Nhs5FHA.444@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> What is the size of the memory for the video card? This sounds right if
> the
> video card is using 128MB for its RAM.
>
>
> On 11/11/2005 "Sachi Noma" <snospam@kamakura.net> wrote:
>>I use Win XP SP2. My notebook pc came with 512 mb ram. I later added
>>another 512mb but in my systems (Control Panel/System), it only show ram
>>at
>>896mb and not 1024mb.
>>
>>Is something wrong with my new memory?
>>
>
> --
> ----
>
> Y.
>

Sachi Noma wrote:

> I use Win XP SP2. My notebook pc came with 512 mb ram. I later added
> another 512mb but in my systems (Control Panel/System), it only show
> ram at 896mb and not 1024mb.
>
> Is something wrong with my new memory?

Nothing is wrong with your memory. Your video card is using some of the
RAM (shared memory).

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

It looks like your laptop's video card is using 128 MB of your system RAM for
the video memory.

896 MB + 128 MB = 1024 MB

On 11/11/2005 "Sachi Noma" <snospam@kamakura.net> wrote:
>My graphic memory is 128mb.
>
>Thank you.
>
>"Yves Leclerc" <yvesleclercNOSPAM@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
>news:O025Nhs5FHA.444@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> What is the size of the memory for the video card? This sounds right if
>> the
>> video card is using 128MB for its RAM.
>>
>>
>> On 11/11/2005 "Sachi Noma" <snospam@kamakura.net> wrote:
>>>I use Win XP SP2. My notebook pc came with 512 mb ram. I later added
>>>another 512mb but in my systems (Control Panel/System), it only show ram
>>>at
>>>896mb and not 1024mb.
>>>
>>>Is something wrong with my new memory?
>>>
>>
>> --
>> ----
>>
>> Y.
>>
>

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Y.

Sachi Noma wrote:
> I use Win XP SP2. My notebook pc came with 512 mb ram. I later added
> another 512mb but in my systems (Control Panel/System), it only show ram at
> 896mb and not 1024mb.
>
> Is something wrong with my new memory?
>


And how much RAM does the notebook set aside for it's video adapter?
Something on the order of 128 Mb, perhaps?


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Sachi Noma wrote:
>
> I use Win XP SP2. My notebook pc came with 512 mb ram. I later added
> another 512mb but in my systems (Control Panel/System), it only show ram at
> 896mb and not 1024mb.
>
> Is something wrong with my new memory?

Seems like your onboard video chip is using 128 meg of motherboard ram.
Quite normal.


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thank you, that was the reason.


"Plato" <|@|.|> wrote in message
news:43758b9f$0$210$bb4e3ad8@newscene.com...
> Sachi Noma wrote:
>>
>> I use Win XP SP2. My notebook pc came with 512 mb ram. I later added
>> another 512mb but in my systems (Control Panel/System), it only show ram
>> at
>> 896mb and not 1024mb.
>>
>> Is something wrong with my new memory?
>
> Seems like your onboard video chip is using 128 meg of motherboard ram.
> Quite normal.
>
>
> --
> http://www.bootdisk.com/
>
>