Three out of Four Isn't Bad

Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us
Thu Apr 17 02:37:40 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I just popped another 2GB in my development machine, 2GB to 4GB RAM, and
> only 3GB shows. Yes I looked at the 820 output, yes I tried PAE kernels,
> yes I checked the BIOS to see the the hole options were tried, other
> thoughts.
>
> FC6 running 2.6.22.14-72.fc6PAE, also 2.6.24.4 kernel.org build.
>
> dmesg hopefully attached if it doesn't get stripped again.

I have a Dell D820 and while its a 64 bit system,  it has a 32 bit chip in 
there somewhere so i can only use 3.25gb of thr 4gb that is installed could 
very well be a hardware limitation somewhere.

Dennis




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