I'm pretty sure that graphics ram is not included in system memory as its not system memory, just the framebuffer and texture ram for the gpu (think of it as a big cache).

Windows will reserve a bit of memory for the graphics card to swap textures and stuff in and out, but that does not subtract the total amount of memory you have as Windows can reallocate it if it needs to.


happymat27 > 'I've taken one pair of sticks out of my machine and everything works fine now, no BSOD or glitches of any kind.'

Are you sure your board can support that much ram reliably? I heard somewhere that filling your board out with RAM could draw too much power or something and that can cause crashes.


happymat27 > 'Anyway I've gone and purchased Vista 64Bit, it should arrive tomorrow so hopefully my problems will be sorted then, I'll probably run into a whole bunch of new ones from what I've heard about Vista though!!'

lol! Good luck!