A couple of questions on fans, fan controllers and ram.

[choice__bro]

hey ppl just got a couple of quickies

1- my fans are all wacked lol my fan at the back is blowing the air out but their is no fan in the front to get the cold air in any ideas

2- i need a good fan controller i want it to be touch but i also want to have a lock feature so my 2yr old boy wont be able to play with it

3- and last is their any reason my computer is telling me that i have 6gig of ram when vista home will only pick up 4 and my mobo will only run 4

[roast]

Hey mate.

1 - Mount a fan to the front of the case...
2 - Nottis has a decent one here http://forums.techpowerup.com/showth...ntroller+touch I think its exactly what you need.
3 - What program is reporting that?

And Welcome to TPU.

[choice__bro]

thanks for the welcome windows is the system properties yea i did put a fan their but their is no were to get the cool air in their aint no holes anywere

[Thrackan]

Is your Vista 32-bits or 64-bits?

32-bits can only address 4GB of memory.

[Fourstaff]

Originally Posted by choice__bro

- and last is their any reason my computer is telling me that i have 6gig of ram when vista home will only pick up 4 and my mobo will only run 4

Are you using 32 bit Vista not 64 bit?

[roast]

What kind of case do you have?

Download CPU-Z and check what RAM it reports.

Can you also fill in your system specs HERE so we can see what you got.

[choice__bro]

32bit i beleave

[Fourstaff]

Originally Posted by choice__bro

32bit i beleave

32bit OS can only use up to 4Gb of ram.

Edit: my bad, I misunderstood the question. Where does your computer tell you that you have 6GB of ram

[choice__bro]

3200 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'DIMM0' has 2048 MB
Slot 'DIMM1' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM2' has 2048 MB
Slot 'DIMM3' has 1024 MB

[choice__bro]

would it read more thou

[choice__bro]

Operating System System Model
Windows Vista Home Basic Service Pack 1 (build 6001)
Install Language: English (United States)
System Locale: English (United States) No details available
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
3.60 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
16 kilobyte primary memory cache
2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Hyper-threaded (2 total) Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. P5L-VM 1394 Rev 1.xx
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 0701 09/26/2007
Drives Memory Modules c,d
480.02 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
307.66 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H22N ATA Device [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

Hitachi HTS543232L9A300 [Hard drive] (320.07 GB) -- drive 1, s/n 090306FB2406LEKLN9RH, rev FB4OC40C, SMART Status: Healthy
Sony Storage Media USB Device [Hard drive] (2.00 GB) -- drive 2, s/n ¬
ST3160215A [Hard drive] (160.04 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 9RA1QR63, rev 3.AAD, SMART Status: Healthy
3200 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'DIMM0' has 2048 MB
Slot 'DIMM1' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM2' has 2048 MB
Slot 'DIMM3' has 1024 MB
Local Drive Volumes

c: (NTFS on drive 0) 160.03 GB 75.93 GB free
d: (FAT32 on drive 1) 319.99 GB 231.72 GB free

Network Drives
None detected
Users (mouse over user name for details) Printers
local user accounts last logon
jamie 4/22/2010 3:21:47 AM (admin)
local system accounts
Administrator 1/20/2008 7:02:26 PM (admin)
Guest never

Marks a disabled account; Marks a locked account EPSON Stylus CX3900 Series on USB001
Microsoft XPS Document Writer on XPSPort:
Send To Microsoft OneNote 2010 Driver on nul:


dont worry abaut the hdds lol they have been fixed up

[choice__bro]

my case is a a1-go2

[Fourstaff]

I am really confused now, do you physically have 6Gb or 4Gb worth of ram?

[choice__bro]

when i bought the computer the gy said it had 4 every program ive had ran on my computer tells me 6 their is no stickers on the ram

[roast]

Originally Posted by choice__bro

my case is a a1-go2

Need more info than that... do you have a few pictures of the case? Just cut a hole in it for a fan.

Originally Posted by Fourstaff

I am really confused now, do you physically have 6Gb or 4Gb worth of ram?

Ditto, and +1 on the question.


How many physical sticks of RAM do you have in the system??

[Fourstaff]

Hmm, this is strange, you buy your computer with 4Gb worth of ram, and then it tells you that you have 6GB and you are running Vista 32bit? Something is not right.

[choice__bro]

theirs 4 sticks

[choice__bro]

how do i no if it is 32bit

[Fourstaff]

Originally Posted by choice__bro

theirs 4 sticks

4 sticks and no stickers on? I have a feeling that you have 2x1GB and 2x2Gb, but since that 32bit OS supports only 4Gb, Vista only reports 4Gb. Try upgrading your OS to 64bit. That means reinstalling.

[choice__bro]

how do i do that do i need to buy another os

[r9]

It would help if there was fan at front at the case to push air in. But even without that fan there is drop of pressure in the case and the air is coming in from the holes on the case. So you are getting air circulation.
Install 64bit OS to evade 32bit OS memory allocation limitations.

[Fourstaff]

Originally Posted by choice__bro

how do i do that do i need to buy another os

You will need to get a 64bit OS boot CD, but you dont need to buy a new OS.

[choice__bro]

do i have to order that from microsoft or can i download it and just use my old key or do i need a new one of them to