512 MB showing up as 448 MB any ideas???

[blakehew]

I just recently put togeter a shuttle system for my mom. It uses the shuttle sk43G barebones system. Its a Socket A that uses the VIA KM400 + VT8237 chipset. For some reason when i put a 512 MB ddr dim into it it only shows up as 448 mb. I swaped dimms and get the same results. A dim that shows up as 448 in the shuttle system shows up fine as 512 in my computer and also visa versa. I upgraded to the latest bios and still have the same results. Has anyone seen this happen. Could it be a bios setting? if so could someone point me to what i might look for. Or is my MB just messed up? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[razor5000]

are you using onboard video?

if so it is probaly shared with your main memory

so 64mb is for your onboard memory and the rest for the system

 

[blakehew]

Oh, That makes sense. Yes I am using on board video. I didnt know that it reserved the memory for the video, I thought it just took what it needed as it needed it. So i guess that There is no problem? Thanks.