[ale] Why doesn't any OS see my memory?

Michael Hirsch mdhirsch at gmail.com
Fri Oct 7 12:15:16 EDT 2005


On 10/6/05, Drag0n <dragon at atlantacon.org> wrote:
>
> Does the motherboard see it in the Bios? If so, then it's something to
> do with the OS's, if not, it could be incompatable ram, and old bios
> update, hardware limitations.


BIOS sees it fine, it's only(!) in Windows, Linux, and FreeBDS that see ~3.5
gig.

Michael

Drag0n
>
>
> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 16:32 -0600, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> > Video is Radeon X300 SE with 64M on-board, so I don't think that's it.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > On 10/6/05, Brian MacLeod <nym.bnm at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 10/6/05, Barlow, Jim D <jim.d.barlow at intel.com> wrote:
> > Sounds like the memory reserved for the PCI-E buffers.
> > The chipset reserves significant memory for this
> > purpose. - Jim
> >
> >
> > Along the same lines, is the memory shared with the video
> > card, or do the video cards have their own memory?
> >
> > bnm
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