Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Physical memory versus detected memory | Date | Fri, 18 Sep 1998 17:35:32 -0300 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <360264DD.1E1EF92D@ibm.net>, Kenneth Stephen writes: +----- | I hav a Pentium 60 machine in the office which has 32MB RAM | plugged into it. At bootup time, the BIOS counts all the way upto | 32MB. But linux (2.0.34 :RedHat) detects only 14 MB memory. I tried | loading NT on it, and it also only detects 14MB memory. What could be | the problem here? +--->8
Two things I've seen:
(1) you have an ISA video card with a memory aperture at 14MB, or you have told your BIOS (some BIOSes) that you have such a card;
(2) you have a recent Compaq, which likes to put the PCI directory around there.
#2 seems unlikely given that it is a P60....
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university
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