<pre><tt><tt>I think the problem is one of settings. Check your mother board specs to determine if there is an integrated video adapter. If so, then your 4 gigs includes that adapter. If you subtract the amount of memory reserved for the adapter your system should be OK. The 4gig is the max for most mother boards. (4 slots of 1 gig ddr2) If you physically had 30 gig (1gig, 0.5 gig time 2) you would be ok as well. By the way. That is why I chose the latter 1.5 gig times 2) arrangement. I did not need the memory as I have not seen my system ever use more then one gig total. Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:06:25 -0600 From: Frank Cox <theatre@sasktel.net> Subject: Re: slow (s-l-o-w) install To: For users of Fedora <<span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1203208438_74">fedora-list@redhat.com> Message-ID: <<span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1203208438_75">20080216160625.d10086f4.theatre@sasktel.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:57:06 -0500 "Kevin J. Cummings" <<span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1203208438_76">cummings@kjchome.homeip.net> wrote: > So what happens if you tell the kernel there is slightly less than 4GB > of ram? A simple test would be to tell the kernel you have 3GB of RAM. > If it runs fine, increase that number until it no longer runs fine. It > its only 64MB of RAM at the top of the memory map, can you tell the > system you only have 4095MB of RAM? I assumed that the bios bug meant that the last 64mb of however-much ram you're using over 2GB becomes the problem. However, I haven't tried what you suggest yet and will do so to see what happens. Thanks for the suggestion! > This is an X86_64 capable CPU running in 64 bit mode, right? So you > don't need a PAE kernel? Correct. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ <a href="http://www.melvilletheatre.com/" target="_blank">http://www.melvilletheatre.com</a></tt></tt></pre>