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On Jul 24, 2005, at 3:46 PM, Mark Shields wrote: |
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> I recently got my home server back up and running after the power |
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> supply went out. I put some more memory in it, and it shows up fine |
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> as 1048576 KB (1 gigabyte). Gentoo, however, is only showing it as |
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> 904336 KB (883.14 MB) . I'm curious as to why it's not detecting |
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> 140.86 MB. Originally the server had a 512mb stick of generic PC2700 |
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> memory; I put 2 sticks of 256 MB (Mushkin, PC3200). The FSB is set to |
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> 133 mhz and cpu/mem ratio is set 1:1 (Athlon XP 2400+ for the |
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> processor). It's running in a dual channel memory config. |
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> mark@laeb ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem |
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> MemTotal: 904336 kB |
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> MemFree: 91224 kB |
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> Any ideas? |
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Hm, now this is a toughie. Barring any BIOS misconfigurations, I'd |
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say that you might have a defective stick of RAM. Try booting |
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another OS and see if it can detect the full gigabyte; if it happens |
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then it's probably a hardware problem, not a Gentoo issue. |
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Colin |
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