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SubjectRe: Physical memory versus detected memory
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In message <360264DD.1E1EF92D@ibm.net>, Kenneth Stephen writes:
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| 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?
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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....

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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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