Does your Video card "borrows" RAM from your RAM?
Check your BIOS and your motherboard's manual for this. There are some MB
that "steals" ram in order to let your video card use 1,2,4 or 8 MB of your
ram for it.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ed Santiago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: [[newbie] More RAMproblems]
> You might check the computer bios and see if in the chipset features there
is
> a "Memory Hole At 15M Addr." or someting of that nature. If it is not
disabled
> Linux will only recognize a small portion of your ram. Another words
DISABLE
> the memory hole's address range of the ISA cycle.
> Hope it helps you out,
> ED
>
> "Payne Stanifer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I added the line append="mem=128mb" to my lilo.conf and I ran the
/sbin/lilo
> , but Linux still doesn't see my 128 MB of RAM. Do I have to reboot before
> it will see the RAM, or what? Someone please help.
> Payne
>
