Re: Anyone tried the ASUS A8V-E Deluxe?

[Giacomo Mulas <gmulas@ca.astro.it>]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Wesley J Landaker wrote:

> I have this board, I'm still working on migrating everything over to
> this system (it's going to be my new primary system on my desk).

May I ask you, and the list, a question (well, a couple) then: how much 
RAM do you have installed? I have 4Gb on it, but I was unable to use it 
all, because apparently some addressing space (about 400Mb) is reserved 
for the southbridge. I found an option in the bios (the documentation is 
terse on it, to say the least) which claims to "remap" memory to make 
it all available. I tried enabling that, but then some drivers do not work 
well (e.g. nvidia, but I can live with it) or do not work at all (e.g. 
sk98lin, and this crashes the computer). Currently, for the sake of 
stability, I left remapping disabled in the bios and everything works like 
a charm, apart from the missing 400Mb, but this is not copletely 
satisfactory. Anybody else went through this? Suggestions?

Thanks, bye
Giacomo

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