Re: [SLUG] Memory unaccounted for?

From: Kwan Lowe (kwan@digitalhermit.com)
Date: Sun May 04 2003 - 18:09:25 EDT


zz1111wws1On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 18:43, btt@nethouse.com wrote:

> The strange thing is that the bios is only reporting 256MB when both
> chips are present, and 128MB when only the 128MB is present. It does
> this at the self-test on startup.
>
> I ran memtest for one complete pass and got no errors, nor am I
> experiencing any strangeness during normal operations. Only the
> missing 128MB when both chips are present.
>
> Any idea why that's happening? Could one be a different speed than the
> other, so as to cause some imcompatibility?

Since the BIOS itself is not seeing the memory then there's no chance
that Linux will. Because of this, the first thing I'd try is to update
the BIOS. I had some Biostar motherboards that had a similar problem
that was resolved with the update.



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