BIOS showing 4gb ram but windows only 2.

[trrich]

So, I installed 4gb of ram in my brother's pc. In bios it's showing 4gb that's great but in windows it is only 2.44gb. Anyone know what's going on?

It's 4gb ddr2 800 RAM and windows 10 64bit.

 

[Kenton82]

This is probably what you have left to use after windows has used some to run with. Windows ALONE will need to use 2GB upwards. 2.44GB is what is left i.e 'usable'. I would strongly suggest 8GB as a minimum for Windows 10 - if your motherboard can take it.

 

[trrich]

This is probably what you have left to use after windows has used some to run with. Windows ALONE will need to use 2GB upwards. 2.44GB is what is left i.e 'usable'. I would strongly suggest 8GB as a minimum for Windows 10 - if your motherboard can take it.

I don't think so, because in task manager it is showing 2.44 and 800Mb free when idle and it is not showin speed, used slots, atd. In my own PC I have 6Gb and in windows it shows 6Gb. But mabye it is just fried.