Re: Strange memory reading (hardware)

2011-06-17 Thread Dave
 On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:09:30 -0500
 Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote:
 
  It's quite simple really, it's another hidden tax - Redistribution
  of RAM.  You see, even with all the entitlement programs poor
  people can't afford more than 512MB of RAM.  As you are certainly
  aware that's not enough to watch YouTube and Hulu on their
  government funded (tax payer funded) ultra high speed internet
  connections.  So, the government has taken some of your RAM (as you
  obviously can afford to buy more if needed) and will give it to
  those who really NEED it - so while they sit around collecting
  government aid (tax payer earnings) their streaming video's will
  play smoothly.
 
 What! I didn't even vote for those guys. :-)
  
  Woa - I guess I digressed a bit...
  
  Ummm, sorry - I don't know why this would be.  Is there some memory
  mapped video (or disk controller?) stealing RAM?
  
 I guess I wasn't clear. Only 2752 MB is show during POST instead 0f
 4096. It has always shown 4096 on this MB.
 
 Thanks for lighting up my day with the above humor. :-)
 
 Robert
 
 

What does Memtest86 show, if you try running that?

I've had issues in the past where one stick has a single bad bit (in a 
512M stick) that caused all sorts of strange things with the BIOS, but 
not the OS!..   Memtest86 (eventually) found it, testing 1 stick at a 
time in each of 4 slots.   Took ages...

DaveB


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RE: Strange memory reading (hardware)

2011-06-16 Thread Gary Gatten
It's quite simple really, it's another hidden tax - Redistribution of RAM.  
You see, even with all the entitlement programs poor people can't afford more 
than 512MB of RAM.  As you are certainly aware that's not enough to watch 
YouTube and Hulu on their government funded (tax payer funded) ultra high speed 
internet connections.  So, the government has taken some of your RAM (as you 
obviously can afford to buy more if needed) and will give it to those who 
really NEED it - so while they sit around collecting government aid (tax payer 
earnings) their streaming video's will play smoothly.

Woa - I guess I digressed a bit...

Ummm, sorry - I don't know why this would be.  Is there some memory mapped 
video (or disk controller?) stealing RAM?

G

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Subject: OT: Strange memory reading (hardware)

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 recently I had 9 current installed.

The problem is not with freenas as it is absolutely hardware. 

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 1024 one would expect.

Quickly subtracting 960 from 1024 gets 64 MB missing. Hmmm, perhaps an
address lead or data lead on the MB is open. This I can understand, but
using any finagling factors I can think of, I can't get close to the
missing total of 1344 MB (4096-2752).

The freenas system runs quite well with the available memory but I was
wondering if anyone could help me understand this problem.

Thank you for reading this and i hope you are having a great day.

Robert
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Re: Strange memory reading (hardware)

2011-06-16 Thread Robert
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:09:30 -0500
Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote:

 It's quite simple really, it's another hidden tax - Redistribution
 of RAM.  You see, even with all the entitlement programs poor
 people can't afford more than 512MB of RAM.  As you are certainly
 aware that's not enough to watch YouTube and Hulu on their government
 funded (tax payer funded) ultra high speed internet connections.  So,
 the government has taken some of your RAM (as you obviously can
 afford to buy more if needed) and will give it to those who really
 NEED it - so while they sit around collecting government aid (tax
 payer earnings) their streaming video's will play smoothly.

What! I didn't even vote for those guys. :-)
 
 Woa - I guess I digressed a bit...
 
 Ummm, sorry - I don't know why this would be.  Is there some memory
 mapped video (or disk controller?) stealing RAM?
 
I guess I wasn't clear. Only 2752 MB is show during POST instead 0f
4096. It has always shown 4096 on this MB.

Thanks for lighting up my day with the above humor. :-)

Robert
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