Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

When you finally resolve this please CC me so your [SOLVED] post doesn't get lost in the list noise. I'm guessing it'll be a few days if not weeks, and by then I'll have stopped actively looking for replies in the deluge of list mail. On 7/18/2013 3:21 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > On 07/17/2013 10:57

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

On 07/17/2013 10:57 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/16/2013 6:30 PM, Gary Roach wrote: I can't say that the memory is absolutely good but can say with a high degree of certainty that it is the correct memory for the system. I gave you the exact JEDEC specs the 4x 1GB DIMMs need to be, and you did

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

On 07/18/2013 09:54 AM, Gary Roach wrote: On 07/17/2013 10:57 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/16/2013 6:30 PM, Gary Roach wrote: I can't say that the memory is absolutely good but can say with a high degree of certainty that it is the correct memory for the system. I gave you the exact JEDEC spe

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem (SOLVED?)

On 07/17/2013 10:57 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/16/2013 6:30 PM, Gary Roach wrote: I can't say that the memory is absolutely good but can say with a high degree of certainty that it is the correct memory for the system. I gave you the exact JEDEC specs the 4x 1GB DIMMs need to be, and you did

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

On 7/16/2013 6:30 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > I can't say > that the memory is absolutely good but can say with a high degree of > certainty that it is the correct memory for the system. I gave you the exact JEDEC specs the 4x 1GB DIMMs need to be, and you didn't respond to that. Post the part identi

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

On 07/14/2013 03:39 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/13/2013 7:06 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 07/13/2013 03:17 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/13/2013 3:09 PM, Gary Roach wrote: And don't forget that as the BIOS self tests it only finds 2.8 GB even though all 4 memory chips are detected. Finally we'r

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

On 7/13/2013 7:06 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > On 07/13/2013 03:17 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> On 7/13/2013 3:09 PM, Gary Roach wrote: >>> And don't >>> forget that as the BIOS self tests it only finds 2.8 GB even though all >>> 4 memory chips are detected. >> Finally we're getting somewhere. >> >> The

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

Do you share memory with the graphics? Regards, Ralf PS: Just for the record, some voodoo I experience. What ever distro I use, I'm always missing 256 MiB. $ hwinfo --memory | grep Si Memory Size: 3 GB + 512 MB $ uname -m x86_64 My RAMs are all ok, 4 GiB are installed - 256 Mib framebuffer =

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

On 07/13/2013 03:17 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/13/2013 3:09 PM, Gary Roach wrote: And don't forget that as the BIOS self tests it only finds 2.8 GB even though all 4 memory chips are detected. Finally we're getting somewhere. The entire length of this thread I was assuming you were seeing 4

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

On 7/13/2013 3:09 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > And don't > forget that as the BIOS self tests it only finds 2.8 GB even though all > 4 memory chips are detected. Finally we're getting somewhere. The entire length of this thread I was assuming you were seeing 4GB at POST. You never stated otherwise, a

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

On 07/12/2013 12:35 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/11/2013 9:49 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 07/11/2013 06:10 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/11/2013 6:10 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Sorry, I've already done this with all possible permutations. They all seem to be working fine. If I install a pair they sh

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

On 07/12/2013 12:35 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/11/2013 9:49 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 07/11/2013 06:10 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/11/2013 6:10 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Sorry, I've already done this with all possible permutations. They all seem to be working fine. If I install a pair they sh

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

On 7/11/2013 9:49 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > On 07/11/2013 06:10 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> On 7/11/2013 6:10 PM, Gary Roach wrote: >> >>> Sorry, I've already done this with all possible permutations. They all >>> seem to be working fine. If I install a pair they show 2GB no matter >>> which pair I p

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

On 07/11/2013 06:10 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/11/2013 6:10 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Sorry, I've already done this with all possible permutations. They all seem to be working fine. If I install a pair they show 2GB no matter which pair I pick. Per the motherboard manual I should be getting abou

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

On 7/11/2013 6:10 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > Sorry, I've already done this with all possible permutations. They all > seem to be working fine. If I install a pair they show 2GB no matter > which pair I pick. Per the motherboard manual I should be getting about > 3.5 GB of useable ram showing. I get 2

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

On 07/11/2013 11:03 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 7/11/2013 12:05 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Well I rebooted the system and went to Bios setup. The Bios shows 4, 1GB memory modules. When boot starts the bios memory test ratchets up to 2.5 GB and stops. The problem seems to be with the bios and not the

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

On 7/11/2013 12:05 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Well I rebooted the system and went to Bios setup. The Bios shows 4, 1GB memory modules. When boot starts the bios memory test ratchets up to 2.5 GB and stops. The problem seems to be with the bios and not the OS. The motherboard is an Intel D865PERL. The

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

On 07/11/2013 01:47 AM, Chris Davies wrote: Gary Roach 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 no

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

Gary Roach 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" kerne

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Gary Roach wrote: > On 07/10/2013 02:53 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Gary Roach 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 runn

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

On 7/10/2013 7:03 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > Second, you are right. The i5-750 is a 64 bit processor. But the > documentation for the pae enabled kernel specifically lists all of the > Intel P series processors as compatible. Ergo, the P4 should be able to > access well over 4GB of ram. So what is wr

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

On 07/10/2013 02:53 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Gary Roach > wrote: On 07/09/2013 11:40 PM, Greg Madden wrote: On Tuesday 09 July 2013 13:46:05 you wrote: I just upgraded my old Intel P4 system with a 3Ghz

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

On 07/09/2013 11:40 PM, Greg Madden wrote: On Tuesday 09 July 2013 13:46:05 you wrote: I just upgraded my old Intel P4 system with a 3Ghz multithread (2 processors?) processor and 4 GB ram. I am running Debian Wheezy with a KDE desktop. My present kernel is Linux-3.8-1=686-pae. From reading, I

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 02:46:05PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > I just upgraded my old Intel P4 system with a 3Ghz multithread (2 > processors?) processor and 4 GB ram. I am running Debian Wheezy with > a KDE desktop. My present kernel is Linux-3.8-1=686-pae. From > reading, I think I need to change

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

On Tuesday 09 July 2013 13:46:05 you wrote: > I just upgraded my old Intel P4 system with a 3Ghz multithread (2 > processors?) processor and 4 GB ram. I am running Debian Wheezy with > a KDE desktop. My present kernel is Linux-3.8-1=686-pae. From > reading, I think I need to change the kernel to t