Re: [PLUG] System Sees only Half Installed RAM [RESOLVED]

2012-02-12 Thread Russell Johnson
On Feb 12, 2012, at 6:46 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > After I sent the message (of course!) I realized that I needed to check > the BIOS setup. Apparently, one of the memory modules was not fully seated, > so I took them both out, swapped them (which would tell me if one was bad), > and carefully re

Re: [PLUG] System Sees only Half Installed RAM [RESOLVED]

2012-02-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Russell Johnson wrote: > The first test is to look in the BIOS to see if the BIOS is in fact, > seeing all the RAM. If it is, then it's a software issue. If the BIOS > isn't seeing all the RAM, then I suspect a hardware issue that a BIOS > update will not resolve. Russell, We

Re: [PLUG] System Sees only Half Installed RAM

2012-02-11 Thread Neal
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Ken Stephens wrote: > Rich Shepard wrote: >>     I successfully upgraded the BIOS on my Dell Latitude E5410 from version >> A03 to A11. With this newest version the system is supposed to recognize and >> use all 8G of installed memory. But, it still sees only 4G. >

Re: [PLUG] System Sees only Half Installed RAM

2012-02-11 Thread Ken Stephens
Rich Shepard wrote: > I successfully upgraded the BIOS on my Dell Latitude E5410 from version > A03 to A11. With this newest version the system is supposed to recognize and > use all 8G of installed memory. But, it still sees only 4G. > > Does anyone here have thoughts on what I should do t

Re: [PLUG] System Sees only Half Installed RAM

2012-02-11 Thread Russell Johnson
On Feb 11, 2012, at 3:18 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > I successfully upgraded the BIOS on my Dell Latitude E5410 from version > A03 to A11. With this newest version the system is supposed to recognize and > use all 8G of installed memory. But, it still sees only 4G. > > Does anyone here have th

Re: [PLUG] System Sees only Half Installed RAM

2012-02-11 Thread wes
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Rogan Creswick wrote: > > > By "the system" do you mean the bios, or the OS (Linux, presumably?)? > >Slackware-13.37/x86_64 with the 2.6.37smp kernel. It should see and use > all 8G. > > Thanks, Rogan, > > Rich > > Doe

Re: [PLUG] System Sees only Half Installed RAM

2012-02-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Rogan Creswick wrote: > By "the system" do you mean the bios, or the OS (Linux, presumably?)? Slackware-13.37/x86_64 with the 2.6.37smp kernel. It should see and use all 8G. Thanks, Rogan, Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists

Re: [PLUG] System Sees only Half Installed RAM

2012-02-11 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: >   I successfully upgraded the BIOS on my Dell Latitude E5410 from version > A03 to A11. With this newest version the system is supposed to recognize and > use all 8G of installed memory. But, it still sees only 4G. By "the system" do you mean

[PLUG] System Sees only Half Installed RAM

2012-02-11 Thread Rich Shepard
I successfully upgraded the BIOS on my Dell Latitude E5410 from version A03 to A11. With this newest version the system is supposed to recognize and use all 8G of installed memory. But, it still sees only 4G. Does anyone here have thoughts on what I should do to make all RAM visible and usab