On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Gary Dale <garyd...@rogers.com> wrote:
> On 09/05/12 08:09 AM, Johann Spies wrote: > >> Hallo Seyyed, >> >> >> Before anybody starts arguing that I don't have 64-bit, this is uname -r >>> and >>> uname -m: >>> root@n03:~# uname -r >>> 2.6.32-3-amd64 >>> root@n03:~# uname -m >>> x86_64 >>> >> I have a similar problem on a computer I bought a few years ago and only >> recently found that the cause might be a buggy bios. >> >> I don't have 48Gb ram but only 4Gb and can use about 3.3Gb of it. >> >> Regards >> Johann >> > Both of you: Have you tried booting from a live disk for a different > distro. I'd suggest something really different, like Fedora or OpenSUSE, > and not one based on Debian. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > debian-user-REQUEST@lists.**debian.org<debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org>with > a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/**4faa67fa.1090...@rogers.com<http://lists.debian.org/4faa67fa.1090...@rogers.com> > > I did try Ubuntu 12.04 rescue remix, and it behaved exactly the same. I used to use Fedora but switched to Debian some time ago - I will try CentOS later. An update on the RAM, I did test each dimm and all passed a quick memtest.
