RE: OT: Strange memory reading (hardware)

2011-06-17 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robert Sent: 17 June 2011 00:06 To: Chuck Swiger Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Strange memory reading (hardware) On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:11:22

Re: OT: Strange memory reading (hardware)

2011-06-17 Thread Robert
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:18:53 +0100 Graeme Dargie a...@tangerine-army.co.uk wrote: Graeme Thanks for taking the time to reply. The BIOS if it has shown 4096mb at post in the past would suggest that it is up to date at least enough to deal with 4gb of ram. I would say the likely hood of all 4

OT: Strange memory reading (hardware)

2011-06-16 Thread Robert
Greetings I have a strange problem with memory on one of my computers. I have recently converted this computer to a NAS server. It is an Asus A8N-VM MB running freenas amd64. I have 4 one Gig memory sticks installed and as well as I can remember, it had always seen the 4 Gig of RAM. Most

Re: OT: Strange memory reading (hardware)

2011-06-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 16, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Robert wrote: I have tested with all of the sticks installed and with one at a time. When all of the sticks are installed, BIOS show a total of 2752 MB of RAM. If any of the sticks are installed alone in any of the four slots, BIOS then shows 960 MB instead of the

Re: OT: Strange memory reading (hardware)

2011-06-16 Thread Robert
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:11:22 -0700 Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Jun 16, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Robert wrote: I have tested with all of the sticks installed and with one at a time. When all of the sticks are installed, BIOS show a total of 2752 MB of RAM. If any of the sticks are

Re: OT: Strange memory reading (hardware)

2011-06-16 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: As for not being able to access all 4GB, this is a FAQ. If you run a 32-bit system, the top gigabyte or so of address space is reserved for memory mapped I/O reservations like AGP, PCIe, etc. If your hardware is capable of

Re: OT: Strange memory reading (hardware)

2011-06-16 Thread Robert Bonomi
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