[Leaplist] LINUX memory shortfall

[Hank Lambert]

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What is the motherboard manufacturer? We have seen problems with
certain Intel motherboards running a 32-bit OS not recognizing the
complete amount of RAM when using 4 GB. The biggest culprit is any of
the Intel's running the 915G Express BIOS, but they have a few others
as well. We saw 3.6 GB is the last computer that had this problem.

Intel released a White Paper in February 2005 named "Intel Chipset 4GB
System Memory Support" detailing this exact issue. I have it available
is anyone wants it.

Hank Lambert
KB4MTO
Certified Geek



Randy Riley wrote:
> My holiday present was 2 gig of additional memory to assist with
> machine performance for virtual OS'es. Problem is Fedora only 'sees'
> 3362 meg of the 4 gig installed (using FREE command). I checked in
> the BIOS and it does recognize 4096 meg so I am confident the memory
> is functioning ok.
> 
> I don't get it - does anyone know why Fedora (FC6) does this? Any
> way to get it to recognize the 4 gig?
> 
>  TIA - Happy New Year
>
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> Randy Riley
> riley.rw at gmail.com <mailto:riley.rw at gmail.com>
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