On Monday 16 May 2005 3:49 pm, Christian Parpart wrote: > On Monday 16 May 2005 3:29 pm, Eric Thibodeau wrote: > > Hi Chrisitian, > > > > You might want to take a look at the Linux kernel amilling list. One of > > my friends had issues with his dual Xeon and 4Gigs of RAM. In his case, > > Windows would claim to see the 4Gigs but would actually crassh when he > > actually came to use more than 3...sounds fammiliar? > > > > In Linux, he'd get a kernel panic on boot (2.6.x kernels)...after over 6 > > months of poking at forums and the LKML, his bug was officially received > > as valid from the kernel gurus and eventually fixed.... > > > > hope this helps a little in your investigation... > > Aiiii! doesn't sound that good, however, better having a bug from blocking > me my 4th GB than a statement like "just just can't" :) > > I'm following the LKML not that long yet to have cought up your friends > message, but I'll try a new thread then.
THANKS ALL! The problem has been a misconfigured BIOS setup. Well, It was already misconfigured as I received the machine by my local shop. However, setting Memhole to "Software" has fixed this issue for good :-D (Now I can start coding mem-eating apps ^o^) Thanks, Christian Parpart. -- Netiquette: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt 03:32:44 up 54 days, 16:39, 0 users, load average: 0.11, 0.07, 0.07
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