Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:05:33 -0400 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: 4GB memory and Intel Dual-Core system |
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On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 05:15:50PM -0400, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 23:07:41 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote > > Hi Alejandro, > > > > > > the board in this system is a Intel D945GNT and the box tells me the > > > > maximum supported amount of RAM is 4 GB. So there should be a way to > > > > address this amount memory. > > > > > > The board did take the 4GB of RAM and it is finding them, therefore supports > > > them. It is just not designed to give a full 4GB of RAM to the system, it only > > > gives 3.4XGB RAM and the rest is really not used, then basically the system > > > just tries to give the 0.6xGB RAM remaining a task by it being used by "System > > > Resources" > > > > > > This isn't really Linux dependant. > > > > so there is no way to give me back the "lost" memory. Is it possible > > that another motherboard might help? > > AFAIK, No. AMD and Intel will always do the same thing until we all move to > real IA64.
Somehow, I doubt AMD see it that way :-)
Some boards at least have a BIOS option to support 'memory hoisting' to map the 'lost' memory above the 4G address space.
I suspect a lot of the lower-end (and older) boards however don't have this option, as they were not tested with 4GB.
Dave
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