-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Frank Fiene wrote: > On Montag, 4. Juni 2007, Jonathan Ervine wrote: >> On Monday 04 June 2007 09:09:20 Frank Fiene wrote: >>> I've installed additional 2GB of RAM into my Thinkpad Z61p. My >>> kernel (latest SUSE-10.2-64bit) sees only 3GB of 4GB! >>> >>> Do i have to setup anything to see the whole memory? >> I've seen this reported elsewhere (on a ThinkPad T60) and it was >> basically a restriction in the BIOS that prevented the OS from seeing >> all 4GB of RAM. You might want to look for a BIOS upgrade, or setting >> - but I'd be prepared to be disappointed if I were you. > > A colleague of mine is running the same machine with Vista (32bit!!) and > everything is fine! :-( > > Also 32bit Linux kernel should be fine with PAE, not? > > I'll have a look at the BIOS.
I have been trying to track the article down, but I came across something recently that suggested that because some video cards mapped memory somewhere in the 3Gb region, the effective memory became about 3Gb on these systems. This is apparently a problem both for linux and windows OS machines. The thrust of the article was that there was not a lot of point buying more than 2Gb on a desktop/laptop PC. (Which may have something to do with why I cannot find it any more...) I came across the link below which outlines the issue to some extent.. > http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/2005/08/05/is3gbenough but this is not the original article :-( -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGY+QCasN0sSnLmgIRAhlaAKDV/OTtaMg18G+kWa7L8tG961HPGQCgqQFM E55cGbXLCg8g9gRpWX708xg= =DHoD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
