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Thread ID: 119111 2011-07-05 03:09:00 PC rebuilt - missing memory? Resolved Jayess64 (8703) Press F1
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1215030 2011-07-05 03:09:00 My query as to why the POST on my new Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4-B3 MB always reported 16MB less than the installed 4096MB resulted in a number of suggestions - including one from Agent_24 to ask Gigabyte directly. Why didn't I think of that?

Here is what they told me:

Thank you for your kindly mail and inquiry. About the issue you mentioned, due to standard PC architecture, a certain amount of memory is reserved for system usage and therefore the actual memory size is less than the stated amount, so basically the situation you described is normal.

So it seems my guess as to what was going on was not far off the mark. This is the first time I have seen reserved memory excluded from the POST report. That's progress, I suppose.
Jayess64 (8703)
1215031 2011-07-05 03:41:00 Cant say I have noticed that before!....Do a Lynnfield build tonight with 8192Mb, Ill let you know what i get! SolMiester (139)
1215032 2011-07-05 04:19:00 I'm running 8 GB on this, and it shows 8,386,684. How, I got that, I have no idea! Speedy Gonzales (78)
1215033 2011-07-05 11:47:00 The new build stated 8180MB memory.... SolMiester (139)
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