On Monday 04 June 2007, Kai Ponte wrote: > On Mon, June 4, 2007 2:14 am, 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. > > I just bought one of my staff a Dell M90 with 4G of RAM. He has the > same issue under Vista. Turns out, the motherboard on these laptops > (which may be similar to yours) only can address something like 3.2G. > > Wierd.
That seems unlikely. Dell would be setting themselves up for a massive class action lawsuit if they knowingly offered 4gig of memory on a machine that could not use it. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
