Asus A8V Deluxe Can't see full 4GB

[John Morris]

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 14:31, tweeks wrote:

> 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).  

Look in your manual, my version 3 copy says, on page 4-17, that it has
an option "DRAM Over 4G Remapping" that defaults to disabled.  My
machine only has a pair of 1GB sticks in it currently so I can't test
it.  Would like to know if I'd get 4GB instead of 3.5GB so could ya
report back?

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