[colug-432] 64bit OS Not Seeing All RAM

[tom]

On 06/09/2015 03:33 PM, Stephen Potter wrote:
> There's also a few mentions online of early BIOS versions of the 210L
> not supporting 4GB, but there seems to be confusion around that.
The latest BIOS version, A02 does not address it either. It is a chipset 
problem.

Tom

>
> -spp
>
> On 6/9/2015 3:31 PM, William Yang wrote:
>> On 06/07/2015 02:34 PM, tom wrote:
>>> Installed LinuxMint 17 64bit ver2 on Dell Optiplex 210L.  64bit P4,
>>> Hyperthreading enabled = running in 64bit mode. New Crucial 4 GB RAM (2
>>> 2GB sticks), Onboard video - Video Memory Size Is set at 8 MB. I only
>>> have 3 GB RAM available. Setup sees 4 GB of RAM. Since I am running 64
>>> bit OS all of the RAM should be available. Is there something about the
>>> 64 bit P4 that is causing this problem.
>> This observation is to suggest a direction of research, rather than a solution.
>>
>> I once had a Dell M65 precision laptop that couldn't support more than 3 GB
>> of RAM, even though there was 4 GB installed.  I vaguely remember that had
>> something to do with the integrated video on the motherboard, rather than
>> the CPU....
>>
>> 	-Bill
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