-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This is a standard motherboard, it's an Abit BE6-II. Greg On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 01:38:52PM -0800, Shane Wegner wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 02:54:51PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > I just installed a 256M ram chip in my server. This gives me 256M of > > ram in bank1, 128M in bank2, and 128M ram in bank 3, which should > > compute to a total of 512M of ram. > > However, in my dmesg output, I get: > > 383MB LOWMEM available. > > Hi, > > Is this a server board or a standard motherboard. My Intel > server board requires matched pairs of sdram installed in > banks 1/2 3/4 and 5/6 respectively as it uses interleaving. > If the option exists in the bios, you can try turning off > memory interleaving. Even better, try moving the 256mb > chip into bank 3 and match the 2 128mb chips into banks 1 > and 2. > > Hth, > Shane > > -- > Shane Wegner > http://www.cm.nu/~shane/ > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAX2cm7s9z/XlyUyARAvvwAKCs3DvwBUC6Peqifz81ZSGWjJkKrwCgyt9J EYJY5fSX5j4VnyiDHhrN8pQ= =StH8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----