Asus A8V Deluxe Can't see full 4GB

[Timothy LeBlanc]

 I  also have a A8V MB. The manual explains that the mother board uses some
memory address space so you can't use all 4 GB.




On 12/6/05, tweeks <tweeks at rackspace.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Guys..
>
> Disclaimer:
> I've googled the list... and didn't see anything...
>
> I've got a guy running an Asus A8V Deluxe w/Ath64 3000+ and 4 sticks of
> 1GB
> and his setup (with either RH-EL3 64bit or RH-EL4 64bit) seems to be
> exhibiting the classic x86/32bit problem of not being able to map the
> memory
> around the 512MB PCI memory/chipset mapping.  I'm not sure about the 2.4
> kernel, but I would think that the 2.6 64bit kernel (or the motherboard)
> could map that memory high (beyond the 32 bit range) to access all 4GB,
> but
> nothing stands out on how I should go about doing this (BIOS seems void of
> any such "settings", and I know of no OS/kernel (sysctl) parameters that
> can
> do this).
>
> And no.. Running PAE is NOT desireable.. This is a 64bit system.. why
> can't I
> either map-high, or around the PCI hardware limitation?! (and NO.. I don't
> want to add another 1GB to "get around it").  This guys wants 4GB.. Not
> pay
> for 5 get 4.5.
>
> Am I missing something here... or is this system simply NOT going to be
> able
> to get to that last PCI mapped 512MB?
>
> Anyone?
>
> Tweeks
>
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