Hello, I read the mailing list in digest mode and not always daily, so I just saw some of the replies to my message.
It was surprising to me that the extended memory test did not find all of the installed memory, since other systems I have with 4GB or more of RAM do detect all of their RAM. I usually disable the quick POST options in a system because I like to see the amount of memory installed in a computer that I use. A holdover from older days, I suppose, but easily enough cured. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky At 10:00 AM 12/18/2009, you wrote:
Message: 8 Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:34:07 -0800 From: Michael Geary <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] [T61p] memory check at POST detects 3070GB with 4GB installed To: Thinkpad list <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Aryeh! Didn't you see my message?!? Just turn off the stupid extended memory test in the BIOS! It says right in the help panel for the BIOS that you *don't need to run it!* There is nothing wrong with your computer. It's just the way the extended memory test works, and the BIOS itself says that you safely can turn it off. You have the full 4GB available in the 64-bit OSes that you use, so what is the problem? Your computer came with the extended memory test turned off by default. If you hadn't turned it on in the first place, you wouldn't be worrying about this! Now go turn it off, OK? :-) -Mike
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