Usable Memory is less then the Memory installed

cseng79
cseng79 Member Posts: 1 New User
edited March 2023 in 2014 Archives

i having the Acer TravelMate 6493, originally it have 2GB of Memory.

Recently, i have addin additional 2GB, mean that currently the system is having 4GB of Memory.

in the BIOS, showing the system is installed with 4GB of Memory, but when come into the windows,

it show 4GB installed (2.90GB Usable)

 

Any work around for this?

Answers

  • Blayn-Acer
    Blayn-Acer Administrator Posts: 2,355 Community Administrator

    If you are running a 32 bit OS, this may be normal. Please see the following article.

     

    http://acer.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/262

     

  • RiSt
    RiSt Member Posts: 4 New User

    I have a new Aspire E5-521 running an AMD E2 quad CPU with 4 GB of memory. The OS is Windows 8.1 with Bing 64-bit. Yet, the system reports 4 GB installed, but only 3.21 GB usable. Is that device overhead?

  • IronFly
    IronFly ACE Posts: 18,413 Trailblazer

    It's ok if your video card has shared memory.

    I'm not an Acer employee.
  • RiSt
    RiSt Member Posts: 4 New User

    I have checked the BIOS, but it doesn't display whether the video card has shared memory. I will assume it does. There are probably other devices that consume some memory, too. I'll check Device Manager to see if I can verify this.

    Thanks again,

    Richard


    IronFly wrote:

    It's ok if your video card has shared memory.