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Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem



Gary Roach <gary719_list1@verizon.net> wrote:
> Now I am really confused. I have two systems; one with an Intel P4, 
> 3GHz, multi-thread and one with an Intel i5-750. Both are running Wheezy 
> with a KDE desktop. The i5-750 system recognizes the 4GB of memory but 
> the P4 system does not. They are both running "pae" kernels.

It's possible that your BIOS and/or motherboard simply cannot access the
upper chunk of memory. For example, I discovered (the frustrating way)
that due to hardware constraints my Dell laptop cannot access more than
3.2GB memory of the 4GB I have installed.

Chris


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