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by fstahler

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My Sister In Law complained her computer was very slow. I checked the RAM, 64 meg was onboard. System tools said it had 24 meg. I installed 256 meg of sdram but the system tools reported 248 meg of ram. The computer now runs @ a reasonable speed butit seems to me that there may be another problem.

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by bryan guffey

That lost 8mb may be allocated in the BIOS to her video card. You might poke around in the CMOS to see for sure...

by mattcps

You should check whether that m/c had an on board graphic card or not.Some motherboard come with an on board vga,which means that it share memory with your m/b.But you reported of 40mb of "missing" ram, which is impossible as the most ram that is shared on current board is 32mb.anyway check your main board spec from the supplier. that's will give you some lead :)

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