ram question

[Gregory Nowak]

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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
> 
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