Ram Question

[Vigilia.Procuratio]

Okay. Weird, huh? 2010 is probably new enough to understand what 8GB of RAM looks like.

Have a look at Task Manager, under the Performance tab. There you should see Physical Memory. I guess it'll say the same, but it's worth checking.

I have to ask though, do you even use 4GB of RAM? I appreciate that it's probably annoying to look at that number when you quite clearly have twice as much, but is this just a cosmetic issue?

I have to wonder whether this is an operating system issue or maybe one of the RAM is faulty (assuming you have 2x4GB).

Hmm...have you ever heard of XMSDSK.EXE? It can be used in pure DOS mode to assign virtual memory from the physical RAM. So, if you booted up into DOS and ran this tool, you could basically assign all 8GB as a virtual drive and then continuously write a file to consume all (or say most) of that space. Bear in mind that it would be virtual, so upon reboot it'd be gone. If the file is written successfully then you've got 8GB physically available, otherwise I don't know what'd happen...system would probably hang or reboot.