[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux Memory Issue

[Gregory L. Camp]

Check for a setting in BIOS that reads "Memory hole at 15-16M"  I'm not
really sure what it is used for, but when that setting is turned on, your PC
will only report 15MB to the OS.

Gregory L. Camp
Gregory.Camp at osc.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: LinuxGrl [mailto:linuxgrl at stonemedia.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 10:03 AM
> To: discuss at ntlug.org
> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Linux Memory Issue
> 
> 
> I just swapped my ATX for an AT mainboard and now I am only 
> able to detect
> 15 of my 96 megs of RAM. My bios picks up all 96 megs... but 
> once I am in
> Gnome (Enlightenment) then only 15 are detected and I am just 
> crawling...  I
> am running Mandrake 7.1 with 98 megs of ram (3 sticks of 32 
> megs). I have an
> IDE boot drive (10gigs) and 6 SCSI drives... The mainboard is 
> the same EPOX
> board... and all the hardware is the  same. The swap over 
> actually went
> fairly easily... well except for the RAM issue... Any suggestions?
> 
> LinuxGrl
> 
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