On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 03:39:23PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > Yes, I tried memtest and it only recognized 3.1G. >
In that case, it is not a kernel problem. I can remember some of my whatever-was-cheap hardware over the years : many motherboards were definitely not built in the expectation that people would fit all the memory which could in theory be used. I never touched Dell machines with the proverbial barge-pole, and certainly in _this_ country they were often not cheap, but I suspect somebody saved a cent by putting something in the address space because "nobody would really want to use 4GB of RAM with this on Windows XP" (the PDF at www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/product/precision-370/manuals specifically mentions XP). Yes, I know that XP supported up to 4GB. But the link at http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/25007815 suggests that not all XP systems managed to make 4GB usable. At least you are doing better than the 2.5GB at the bottom end of the range in that post. Perhaps something in http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3514/t/19449295 might either help, or console, you ? FWIW, motherboard manufacturers who talk about a Mobo "supporting" a certain amount of RAM usually mean "it boots with sticks of that nominal capacity and we do not know, or care, how much of the RAM you can actually use". No idea if Dell was like that for this product, ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
