On Monday 04 June 2007 11:05, G T Smith wrote: > Frank Fiene wrote: > > On Montag, 4. Juni 2007, Jonathan Ervine wrote: > >> On Monday 04 June 2007 09:09:20 Frank Fiene wrote: > >>> I've installed additional 2GB of RAM into my Thinkpad Z61p. My > >>> kernel (latest SUSE-10.2-64bit) sees only 3GB of 4GB! > >>> > >>> Do i have to setup anything to see the whole memory? > >> > >> I've seen this reported elsewhere (on a ThinkPad T60) and it was > >> basically a restriction in the BIOS that prevented the OS from seeing > >> all 4GB of RAM. You might want to look for a BIOS upgrade, or setting > >> - but I'd be prepared to be disappointed if I were you. > > > > A colleague of mine is running the same machine with Vista (32bit!!) and > > everything is fine! :-( > > > > Also 32bit Linux kernel should be fine with PAE, not? > > > > I'll have a look at the BIOS. > > I have been trying to track the article down, but I came across > something recently that suggested that because some video cards mapped > memory somewhere in the 3Gb region, the effective memory became about > 3Gb on these systems. This is apparently a problem both for linux and > windows OS machines. > > The thrust of the article was that there was not a lot of point buying > more than 2Gb on a desktop/laptop PC. (Which may have something to do > with why I cannot find it any more...) > > I came across the link below which outlines the issue to some extent.. > > > http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/2005/08/05/is3gbenough > > but this is not the original article :-(
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