8GB memory not supported
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sun Mar 8 02:59:06 UTC 2009
saqib butt wrote:
> hi,
>
> I have Intel Pentium Dual Core E2180 / 2 GHz processor. i just upgraded my
> system with 4 memory sticks i.e. 8GB of RAM due to my requirements.
>
> Now the issue that i am facing is that my 64bit fedora system does not
> showing and supporting more than 3.2 gigs of RAM when i consult
> "/proc/meminfo", "free -m" and "top".
>
> Also I am getting the following system prompt,
>
> =====
>
> Kernel failure message 1:
> WARNING: BIOS bug: CPU MTRRs don't cover all of memory, losing 4800MB of
> RAM.
This explains why you don't see all of RAM. Did you try a BIOS update?
You could also ask your hardware vendor for an explanation of why it's
not working.
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Cheers
John
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