ram question

[ameer armaly]

well, a byte is 8 bits, but since you've got 512 mb, that probably isn't
it.


On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Gregory Nowak wrote:

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> Hi again all.
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> I've just been looking at a converted pdf of my motherboard
> manual. While it doesn't specifically tell you in what order you
> should place your memory modules, it does say that the installed
> memory array has to be 68 or 72 bits wide. How do I compute that? My
> guess is that I'd need to know how many bits there are per module, but
> I don't know what the answer to that is. Thanks.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 12:14:27PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > I've just tried the mem=512M option, and here's what I get.
> >
> > user-defined physical RAM map:
> >  user: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
> >  user: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
> >  user: 0000000000100000 - 0000000017ff0000 (usable)
> >  user: 0000000017ff0000 - 0000000017ff3000 (ACPI NVS)
> >  user: 0000000017ff3000 - 0000000018000000 (ACPI data)
> >  user: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> > 383MB LOWMEM available.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
>
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