[DJORN]

HELP! can someone tell me how to fix this my PC reads that there is 3GB but only 1 GB usable
I've read different post with this same issue but if I'm working 1 on 1 with someone I would get it fix. I think I've come to the right forum

I've already tried cleaning the ram stick, or swapping them

MY reasons for wanting it fix....is because i usually play games on my pc like Call of duty blackopps....but i changed my OS to windows 7 ...so the pc was cleaned out and I don't know if those game would run,now that it is saying 1GB available

this is how it looks

[flavallee]

How did you obtain Windows 7 Ultimate SP1, and why hasn't it been activated?

What's the brand name and model name and model number of your computer, and what Windows version came pre-installed in it?

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[DJORN]

it is activated I just took the snap shoot before it was finish loading
how do i find out the model number and rest of stuff?
and it was Windows Vista Home Premium that came installed

this is a pic of when it finished load

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...98136216_n.jpg

[DoubleHelix]

The question still stands. How did you obtain Windows 7? We can see that it's installed. Where did you buy it, and what, exactly, did you buy?

[DJORN]

My pc crashed and we carried it by the technician and we paid the guys to do everything for us
its an original version... I assure you
it usually says 3.00 GB not..3.00 GB(1GB usable)

[swash984]

only sais that when I'm running something, probably means you are using 2 gb of ram and can only use 1 more. Also ram tends to die over long periods of time.

[DJORN]

yh but I've seen people post the same thing........and "Tech support guys helped them"
so is there any thing i can try to fix it?.....it says 3 GB ram(1GB usable)

[TerryNet]

See posts # 4 and 2 in this thread.

[DJORN]

@TerryNET I tried that already and it still didn't work

[TerryNet]

I suggest that you try a web search for "3 GB ram(1GB usable)" (w/o the quotes) and check out some of the hits. That's how I found the above thread.

If it has never worked as expected I'm wondering if it could be incompatible RAM chips, but I don't know enough about hardware to do any more than wonder.

[DJORN]

ok well I'll wait for the professionals to help me.,.....thanks though

[DJORN]

is anyone else going to help me?

[Sare2]

Hi DJORN. See if the information in this post helps:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/298983-30-usable

Sare

[DJORN]

at the top I said I already tried swapping the RAM about 2 times

[Sare2]

Well, there's more in the series of posts than just swapping RAM. Are the sticks matched? If you go into the BIOS, what are you seeing there? Anything that might be a clue?

Sare2