Re: [SLE] SuSE 10.1 32bit and 4GB RAM, seen are 3.5GB

On Sunday 27 August 2006 23:43, Martin Köbele wrote:
On 8/27/06, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
[...]
Check your motherboard documentation.

I will. what would it say? Why is that a motherboard issue?
I have no RAID nor PCI controllers which could occupie the last 0.5GB.

I have 4GB GA-K8NN Ultra-SLI 4200+ SMP dual x86_64

[...]
actually I thought a 64bit system should not have this problem since it can
address natively more memory than a 32bit system which can address only 3GB
of memory.

It doesn't matter that you don't have any boards plugged into it:


http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/FAQ_Model.aspx?FAQID=4577&ProductID=1883&ClassValue=Motherboard

Q: When system get full DIMM memory, why did the POST screen show the
incorrect information?

A: Due to standard PC architecture, a certain amount of memory is reserved for
system usage and therefore the actual memory size is less than the stated
amount. For example, 4GB of memory size will instead be shown as 3.xxGB
memory during system startup. THE MEMORY SIZE WILL BE VARIED according to
different chipsets, different VGA card used, DIFFERENT ONBOARD CONTROLLERS
like audio and LAN etc, different add on cards used.


You should see a similar message in the manual under "Feature Summary". In
the English manual that's section 1-2, page 12.

All that onboard stuff -- lan, Audio, disks, etc. Have to live somewhere in
the memory map, so some RAM is "lost" if you have maxed out your RAM.

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