Re: I want all my 4GB!!!
Victor Padro wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Victor Padro<vpadro@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:41 PM, James Brown<jbrownfirst@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Victor Padro wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM, James Brown<jbrownfirst@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I have a laptop Acer TravelMate 3043WTMi under Lenny AMD64 with 4GD RAM.
>>>>> But the system "see" only 3GB:
>>>>> dmesg |grep Memory
>>>>> [ 0.004000] Memory: 3081184k/3136000k available (2225k kernel code,
>>>>> 54428k reserved, 1080k data, 392k init)
>>>>> $ cat /proc/meminfo
>>>>> MemTotal: 3088108 kB
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> How can I get all my 4GB memory?
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>> Did you realize that you might have memory shared for your video adapter?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Do you think that it maybe that the lost 1GB of my RAM use my videocard?
>>> And how did it work before upgrade my RAM, when I had 1GD at all?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> More RAM you have more memory can be shared for the video adapter.
>>
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>
> I forgot to tell you, that perhaps you can set the amount of memory
> shared in the BIOS, but know this, some BIOS have that option and some
> others doesn't.
>
>
There is 3071MB RAM I can see in my BIOS.
But I have Windows XP pre-installed on my laptop too with some acer
laptop special utilities. And such utility "see" all my 4GB under
Windows XP (the Windows XP "see" only 3GB too, but it is not the version
for 64 bits).
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