ram question

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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But if that were the case, then why would it report the correct
amount of memory when he places the chips in the machine separately?
If it were shared video memory, then the machine would report a
smaller amount of memory when he placed the memory on the board, no
matter which chip it was.
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Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm at pcdesk.net
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From: "Roy Nickelson" <roylee at visuallink.com>
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Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: ram question


> hi,
> it looks like everyone is forgetting one thing.  What kind of video
> card do you have. If your motherr board has onboard video the vidio
> ram is shared with system ram.  so in this example if you have 512
> mb of ram and a onboard video card with 128 mb of ram this would
> leave the 384 mb.
> Roy
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> From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 3:54 PM
> Subject: ram question
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> Hi all.
> 
> 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.
> 
> The board can support a total of 768M of ram, so the system should be
> seeing the full 512M of ram, but it doesn't look like this is the
> case. This is a 100MHz FSB board. The chips are all sdram, and are
> pc133, pc100, and pc100 respectively.
> 
> Does anybody see what I'm missing? Should I maybe enable the high
> memory option in the kernel? The kernel is 2.4.25. Please let me know
> if I should provide more info. Thanks in advance as always.
> 
> Greg
> 
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