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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Basics / August 2006Question about memory
Hi, My Belarc Advisor says I have: 896 MB Installed memory Slot 'AO' has 512 Mb. Slot 'A1" has 512Mb. Is my total memory the sum of these three? IOW, can I assume that the Slots HAVE that much memory installed? Thanks, ... Fred Are you using a laptop or desktop that shares the video memory with the main memory? In other words, not a stand-alone graphic card with it's own memory? As the memory is 128 MB "short" that would be my guess that the 128 MB is being allocated to a graphic chip. > Hi, > My Belarc Advisor says I have: [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Thanks, ... Fred Hi, Thanks for your reply. I don't know the answer to your question I just took it to mean that I had 896Mb, sort-of "hard wired' and another 512x2 that were plug- ins in addition to the "installed Memory" My Belarc profile Summary does not have a listing for video memory or graphic cards. Fred > Are you using a laptop or desktop that shares the video memory with the > main memory? In other words, not a stand-alone graphic card with it's own [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >> >> Thanks, ... Fred > Hi, > Thanks for your reply. > I don't know the answer to your question > I just took it to mean that I had 896Mb, sort-of "hard wired' and another > 512x2 that were plug- ins in addition to the "installed Memory" No, that is not the way memory works. Memory cards plug into memory slots. So, what Belarc tells you is the net of the memory reserved for the graphics card ("shared memory") and the memory left over after the graphics card has stolen part of it. Inasmuch as you are missing 128MB, and that is a common requirement for graphics cards, it seems that your PC has a graphics card which uses shared memory. Note that the graphic co-processor need not be present on a card; it can just as easily (and more cheaply) be located on the motherboard. Jim > My Belarc profile Summary does not have a listing for video memory or > graphic cards. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >>> >>> Thanks, ... Fred > Hi, > My Belarc Advisor says I have: [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Is my total memory the sum of these three? No. You have 1024MB of memory, the two slots of 512MB each. However, you don't have a separate video card, but instead have video support built into the motherboard. 128 MB of the 1024 is used to suppor that onboard video, leaving you with only 896MB usable to you.  SignatureKen Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup > IOW, can I assume that the > Slots HAVE that much memory installed? |
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