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On Monday 16 May 2005 3:49 pm, Christian Parpart wrote: |
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> On Monday 16 May 2005 3:29 pm, Eric Thibodeau wrote: |
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> > Hi Chrisitian, |
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> > You might want to take a look at the Linux kernel amilling list. One of |
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> > my friends had issues with his dual Xeon and 4Gigs of RAM. In his case, |
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> > Windows would claim to see the 4Gigs but would actually crassh when he |
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> > actually came to use more than 3...sounds fammiliar? |
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> > In Linux, he'd get a kernel panic on boot (2.6.x kernels)...after over 6 |
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> > months of poking at forums and the LKML, his bug was officially received |
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> > as valid from the kernel gurus and eventually fixed.... |
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> > hope this helps a little in your investigation... |
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> Aiiii! doesn't sound that good, however, better having a bug from blocking |
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> me my 4th GB than a statement like "just just can't" :) |
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> I'm following the LKML not that long yet to have cought up your friends |
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> message, but I'll try a new thread then. |
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THANKS ALL! |
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The problem has been a misconfigured BIOS setup. Well, It was already |
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misconfigured as I received the machine by my local shop. However, setting |
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Memhole to "Software" has fixed this issue for good :-D |
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(Now I can start coding mem-eating apps ^o^) |
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Thanks, |
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Christian Parpart. |
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