Discusman Posted February 6, 2006 Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 Hi guys,I have a Dell Poweredge server with 256MB ram. I noticed it has 248mb ram after I formatted HD and reinstalled windows this past weekend.What is happening? Something eating up my memory? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djohn Posted February 6, 2006 Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 Does it have an on-board graphic card that is using 8mb of your ram? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 You can check in your bios, how much RAM is allocated to the onboard video. If you do have onboard video, the standard is 8, 16 and 32 MB of RAM. Onboard video will share memory with system memory, thus the amount shown in windows could be less.Also notice that 1MB = 1024 KB and 1KB = 1024 Bytes, which could also cause a discrepency. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Discusman Posted February 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Does it have an on-board graphic card that is using 8mb of your ram?I have a Standard VGA Graphic Adapter. Is this one you are talking about?You can check in your bios, how much RAM is allocated to the onboard video. If you do have onboard video, the standard is 8, 16 and 32 MB of RAM. Onboard video will share memory with system memory, thus the amount shown in windows could be less.Also notice that 1MB = 1024 KB and 1KB = 1024 Bytes, which could also cause a discrepency.Umm.. I thought I have seen Memory was 256mb in window last time.Maybe I remembered wrong.I will check the bios, thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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