sound like it could be correct as advertised.Originally posted by guest_the gaffer@Nov 28 2003, 01:56 PM
advertised as 128mb ram with at least 10 gb hard drive, .......... house the other day my mate looked at it and informed me its only 112mb ram which he says seems an unusual amount of ram, and it only has a 9.30gb hard drive,
Does the video card use shared memory, or does it have its own video memory on its card? If the video adapter is built onto the motherboard. it is most likely using that missing 16megs.
Check on your video adapter to see if you can see how much ram on the video card/adapter. it may also be possible under Compaq computers to adjust the amount of RAM for the Video display, so that you can increase or decrease the shared ram.
Shared Ram is part of the main system memory. as there is no actual video memory, it just uses main memory for the video display
for the hard drive, alot of HD manufacturers count 1meg as 1,024kbytes. and not 1meg = 1,000kbytes. so if you were to divide the 10gigs by 1,024, you end up with 9.76Gigs. If you consider the size, the filesystem used to format which can leave alittle unformatted space as unallocated, and yes, you can very easily find that missing bit. Since you using FAT32 and an 8k Cluster size, which has about a typical 10% wasted space between 8 and 16GB HD's
also. as far as i know, there were no IDE hard drives in 9.3gigs, just 10gigs, there were some SCSI HD's in 9.1gigs. and i am pretty sure you do not have a SCSI HD in your PC.