Hello Naveed, For you to read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension
Important: With PAE, IA-32 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-32> architecture is augmented with additional address lines used to select the additional memory, so physical address size increases from 32 bits to 36 bits. Then, after reading, this can/will help you: https://wj32.org/wp/2011/02/23/pae-patch-updated-for-windows-7-sp1/ Zoran On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 6:23 AM, Naveed Ghori <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I am booting a 32 bit Win 7 image (via Seabios). > > > > Windows is detecting only 1.92GB (even though there is 8GB of memory > available. > > Being a 32 bit OS I would have expected it to see at least 4GB. > > > > Coreboot logs shows: > > Available memory below 4GB: 0x7ae00000 (1966M) > > Available memory above 4GB: 6144M > > > > What can cause the full 4GB to not be seen. Should I install only 4GB of > memory instead of 4GB? I have ordered some to try in any case. > > > > Best Regards, > > Naveed > > *Naveed Ghori* | Lead Firmware & Driver Engineer > > *DTI Group Ltd* | *Transit Security & Surveillance* > > 31 Affleck Road, Perth Airport, Western Australia 6105, AU > > P +61 8 9373 2905,151 | F +61 8 9479 1190 | [email protected] > > > > Visit our website www.dti.com.au > > The information contained in this email is confidential. If you receive > this email in error, please inform DTI Group Ltd via the above contact > details. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not use or disclose > the information contained in this email or attachments. > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > https://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot >
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