[ale] memory

Robert Heaven robertheaven at mediaone.net
Mon Sep 18 11:12:07 EDT 2000


I've tried re-seating them, rotating them and even swapping them out
completely (with another computer) and nothing seems to help.

----- Original Message -----
From: Wandered Inn <esoteric at atlnet.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] memory


> Robert Heaven wrote:
> >
> > I'm having a similar problem with a motherboard that has an SIS chipset.
> > Initially, it showed 64M and I moved the 2 DIMMs around and then it
showed
> > 128M. Unfortunately, about a week later, for no reason, it went back to
64M.
> > My next step will be to change to a different motherboard (one day this
> > week) and see if that works.
>
> Sounds to me like maybe one of sticks is either not seated well, dirty,
> slot is dirty, or the stick is going bad.  Try reseating them and see if
> that makes a difference.
>
> >
> > -Robert
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Terzo <mterzo at mindspring.net>
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 5:03 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ale] memory
> >
> > >
> > > did you run lilo have you made the change?
> > >
> > > --terzo
> > >
> > > On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, wizard wrote:
> > >
> > > > Thanks for your response, and yours as well, Chris. I have done this
and
> > > > I still am showing only 64M total memory. Any other suggestions?
> > > >
> > > > Ed.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Terzo wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > in lilo
> > > > >
> > > > > image=/boot/vmlinuz
> > > > > ->      append="mem=128M"
> > > > >     label=linux
> > > > >     read-only
> > > > >     root=/dev/hda1
> > > > >
> > > > > --terzo
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, wizard wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > I have seen this here before. I am running SuSE 6.4 (kernal
2.2.14).
> > I
> > > > > > have 128M of ram, but only 64M are showing in top.
> > > > > > How do I get the other 64M recognized? (It shows on the bios
> > screen).
> > > > > > Ed.
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