RAM being displayed is lesser than the actual in my Windows 7

Posted by Prateek Somani on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Prateek Somani
Published on 2014-08-23T07:50:00Z Indexed on 2014/08/23 10:24 UTC
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I am using Windows 7 and Ubuntu on the same machine. Earlier I had 3 GB of RAM,but now the Windows is displaying just 1 GB of RAM. Please also find the output of the free command in my Ubuntu :

           total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1008208     904808     103400       5736      13516     239596
-/+ buffers/cache:     651696     356512
Swap:      3127292      10252    3117040

Has the swap memory consumed my 2 GB of RAM? Will I be able to use the whole of 3GB of the RAM in my Windows?

Regards, Prateek

Update : I tried to run the lshw command and I got the following output :

*-memory
       description: System Memory
       physical id: 1b
       slot: System board or motherboard
       size: 1GiB
     *-bank:0
          description: SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1067 MHz (0.9 ns)
          product: HMT112S6BFR6C-H9
          vendor: Hynix
          physical id: 0
          serial: 2C71D069
          slot: Bottom - Slot 1
          size: 1GiB
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 1067MHz (0.9ns)
     *-bank:1
          description: SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1067 MHz (0.9 ns) [empty]
          product: 16JSF25664HZ-1G4F1
          vendor: Micron
          physical id: 1
          serial: FD421821
          slot: Bottom - Slot 2
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 1067MHz (0.9ns)

Why it is able to detect the vendor/product name of the bank-1 RAM, why can't it detect the RAM size and other details ? Has my RAM got faulty?

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