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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 01:38:23
Message-Id: 537D5507.7030507@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable by wraeth
1 wraeth wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 > On 22/05/14 07:37, Alex Schuster wrote:
5 > > Does this ring any bells? I'm out of ideas. Except than pulling out
6 the 4
7 > > GB, or trying another mainboard.
8 >
9 > Just a quick suggestion to help rule it out: try booting a LiveCD or other
10 > "one-size-fits-most" medium and seeing if your full memory is registering
11 > there. If it is, then it's not a hardware malfunction; if it doesn't, then
12 > either you've got bad hardware or a configuration issue in your BIOS.
13 >
14 > cheers
15 > wraeth
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18 Isn't there a kernel setting that cuts off after 4GBs or something? I
19 seem to recall having to turn that on at some point. I would think this
20 would be on by default but . . . .
21
22 Dale
23
24 :-) :-)
25
26 --
27 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
28 how you interpreted my words!

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Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable covici@××××××××××.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>