From: Paul P Komkoff Jr <i@stingr.net>
To: Thomas Stewart <thomas@stewarts.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Only 3.2G ram out of 4G seen in an i386 box
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 14:15:04 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060808101504.GJ2152@stingr.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060808082429.GA1068@stewarts.org.uk>
Replying to Thomas Stewart:
> Hi,
> I have a Dell Optiplex GX280, a Pentium 4 with an Intel chipset. It has
> 4G of ram. The problem is I can only see 3.2G, even tho the bios reports
> 4G.
Chipset issue. Some Intel chipsets are doing strange things with memory
map. They call this "design flaw" but not offered free replacements
yet, so, for example, on SE7221BK1E you can't use more than 3 gigs.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-08 10:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-08 8:24 Only 3.2G ram out of 4G seen in an i386 box Thomas Stewart
2006-08-08 10:15 ` Paul P Komkoff Jr [this message]
2006-08-08 19:51 ` David Schwartz
2006-08-09 6:51 ` gmu 2k6
2006-08-09 14:48 ` Joel Jaeggli
2006-08-09 14:54 ` gmu 2k6
2006-08-10 21:09 ` Simen Thoresen
2006-08-11 11:08 ` gmu 2k6
2006-08-13 10:54 ` Simen Thoresen
2006-08-10 13:04 ` Thomas Stewart
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2006-08-08 9:13 Mikael Pettersson
2006-08-08 10:01 ` Thomas Stewart
[not found] <fa.FhtZk3YiH9OyGCt4iXIGt+vYtos@ifi.uio.no>
2006-08-08 14:22 ` Robert Hancock
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