Re: RAM shows less

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Jatin K wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> I've a new Dell Inspiton 1564 laptop with 1GB graphics card and 4GB DDR3 
> RAM, FC 12 64bit installed on it , but in system information tab it 
> shows 3.7GB usable RAM. My Question is "what about the remaining RAM ??" 
> is it shared with graphics card ? then what is the meaning of dedicated 
> RAM of my graphics card ( if graphics card shares my installed ram module )
> 
> any idea ??

Maybe the integrated graphics card is still stealing some RAM (256MiB?)
even if you don't use it.
A quick Google search of your "1564" appears to confirm that the
integrated graphics card is not useable. We can not be sure that
the BIOS is well written, though.

/var/log/dmesg may contain hints.

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