Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 08 Aug 2006 08:22:49 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: Only 3.2G ram out of 4G seen in an i386 box |
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Thomas Stewart wrote: > Hi, > I have a Dell Optiplex GX280, a Pentium 4 with an Intel chipset. It has > 4G of ram. The problem is I can only see 3.2G, even tho the bios reports > 4G.
There was a thread on this subject a little while ago. Essentially it is a chipset limitation (i.e. lack of support for memory hole remapping, memory hoisting, whatever you want to call it) and there's nothing that can really be done about it. Even a 64-bit kernel will have the same problem.
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