Hi, Only guess i could make is the various ram chip speeds is confusing the system. Dave. On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:22:30 -0600 Gregory Nowak <greg at romuald.net.eu.org> writes: > -----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----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!
