On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 12:37:47AM -0400, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > Hi all, > > I thought I would know how to handle this but it turns out that I don't. > > I just added two new sticks of RAM to a system but it's not recognized by > the BIOS or OS. > > > # inxi -m > Memory: RAM: total: 7.74 GiB used: 2.93 GiB (37.9%) > Array-1: capacity: 16 GiB note: est. slots: 4 EC: None > Device-1: DIMM_A1 size: 4 GiB speed: 800 MT/s > Device-2: DIMM_A2 size: 4 GiB speed: 800 MT/s > Device-3: DIMM_B1 size: 4 GiB speed: 800 MT/s > Device-4: DIMM_B2 size: 4 GiB speed: 800 MT/s > > So Inxi sees all 16GB (as does memtest) and yet in the first line it shows > RAM total at 8. dmidecode output is below > > Motherboard is an Asus F2A85-M. BIOS has been reset to defaults but not > updated since the mobo was purchased. > OS is current Manjaro KDE. > > The website specs say it can take 64GB. > Is updating the BIOS necessary or are there other solutions? > > All help is greatly appreciated.
Check the setting for the UMA Frame Buffer Size in the BIOS. Apparently AMD's onboard video likes to take a LOT of memory by default if set to auto. Many people have seen the auto setting like to take 50% which is of course insane. See page 2-20 in the manual. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
