Comments on: D’oh – 4GB ram, but only 3.25GB usable on windows 7

By: ben

ben — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:08:54 +0000

ps for the website owner, if the anwers are so obviously so remarkably wrong why dont you do everyone looking for a legitamate answer a favour by taking them down and doing us all a favour

By: ben

ben — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:06:18 +0000

I suggest next time you do your research a little more thourougly before waffling on about various bits of hardware stealing your ram down from 4 gb to 3.25
If you put in 6gb ram you would still only find exactly 3.25gb

By: shoaib

shoaib — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:06:45 +0000

I agree with @morten as I am using 64X operating sys. yet it shows only 3.25gb usable…

By: Morgan

Morgan — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:16:49 +0000

Did you guys even read what he said? 4GB of RAM are being used but 0.75GB have been taken up already, so it says 3.25GB available.

By: zy

zy — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:24:22 +0000

I recently discovered that there is also chipset limitation.
some chipset only supports 2 or 4GB max especially older laptops.

My DEll M1210 is also showing 4GB installed, 3.25gb usable.

By: gan chee kian

gan chee kian — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:05:16 +0000

hey i know how to fix this problem and you can upgraded to 128gb of ram in windows 7.Go and download 4gbramforwindows 7 try this links http://viethak.com/6342-ReadyFor4GB-Ram-for-Windows-7-32-bit.html.

By: JP

JP — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:17:39 +0000

Oh wait, you have 32 bit. AFAIK what I posted only applies to x64.

By: JP

JP — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:16:27 +0000

Open your start menu, click Run, and type resmon. Then swith to the Memory tab. You should see that about 1gb is “Hardware Reserved”.

The solution is to enable “memory remapping” in your BIOS. For me, setting the RAM options to auto accomplished that.

This is the thread that helped me
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=326801&highlight=

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:17:29 +0000

@Morten @Icy I am having the same issue… not sure why.

By: Icy

Icy — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:23:58 +0000

I also got 64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate and i got 4GB of ram and yet it still displays 3,25GB i think it might be an interface issue..
As soon as i Check my computer’s specs with any other program than windows it does display 4GB =)