Re: 1GB RAM is missing.



On October 23, 2007 09:34:52 am pgega wrote:
On Oct 22, 10:00 pm, Pasi Oja-Nisula <p...@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:29:37AM -0000, pgega wrote:
Pasi: what was the RAM seend by BIOS , when I use 4 GiB ,bios sees
only 3052 GiB (But the MSI board can hadle up to 8 GiB)

If I would rise RAM number with GRUB (like you, 3900GiB), could I get
more then seen by bios (3052 GiB) ?

In my case bios reports 3903 MB. Anyway, the usable limit in my machine
is less than what the bios reports.

One instruction I have heard about these problems was to make sure
that bios setting "memory remap" is on. Whatever that is, my bios
doesn't have that.

Pasi

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OK, I will check this option,

My bios reports two values:
Physical memory : 4G
and Usage memory 3G

And, god sake, I do not know how to enable more ram, in other hand
board supports up to 8G, none of RAM sticks is broken.

You are going to have to accept that you are never going to get all 4gb
running a 32bit install due to the limitations of using 32bit where things
need to be reserved in the 4gb which is not the case using 64bit where you
see the whole 4gb in use. I know with my machine if I boot a Knoppix Live CD
(32bit) I only see around 3.3gb useable if I use my normal Debian install
(64bit) I get the whole 4gb like below.

$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 4052156 4023220 28936 0 52160 1714740
-/+ buffers/cache: 2256320 1795836
Swap: 1052216 88 1052128

If you want then you can read all the gory details as to why you cannot get
the entire 4gb using 32bit in the many thousands of hits in the search below
most of the time talking about windows but the same BIOS/reserved issues are
present if using GNU/Linux. BTW if you did install 8gb in your machine you
will still not get the entire eight as well.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=32+bit+4gb+memory+limit&btnG=Search

Stephen

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