[Leaplist] Only seeing 3G memory

Hank Lambert hank at hanklambert.com
Tue Oct 7 14:42:03 EDT 2008


Is it an Intel motherboard? Certain Intel motherboards have an issue
where they only see 3 - 3.5 GB when you have 4 GB installed.

--Hank


Gray Frost wrote:
> I just install 4G ram in a 64B machine and the bios and Fedora 9 x64
> are only seeing about 3g (2882560k) of it.  The machine is a Amd64
> T6212 e-machine that the manuals/charts says it can use all 4 Gigs.
>
> I didn't know if there was something in the bios I need to adjust.  I
> did see there is a  setting for "Mermory hole" whatever that is? I set
> it to see but no diff.
>
>     [root at localhost ~]# free
>                  total       used       free     shared    buffers    
>     cached
>     Mem:       2834592     565048    2269544          0      11720    
>     228192
>     -/+ buffers/cache:     325136    2509456
>     Swap:      2031608          0    2031608
>
> Any ideas?
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> Gray
>
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