Hi there, I don't know if this is the right discussion to get mixed in, since I am an absolute newbie in unix. Still I wanted to report my story. I purchased this Acer laptop about two years ago I think, could be three, I don't recall exactly. I had Vista home basic installed or something similar. I could not upgrade it to Windows Vista Ultimate. I bought it on eBay as refurbished, and the seller had upgraded it from 1 GB base memory to 4 GB. I called Microsoft and they referred me to memtest as well. Then the memory gave problems too. It turned out that the 32-bit vista could only use 3 GB maximum memory, so during the upgrade, this gave problems, since it found 4 GB and it could use only 3 GB. Now the Acer machine itself could handle 4 GB. It has two equal 2 GB max memory slots. My two chips are identical. I am now running a gparted session, since my kernel won't boot from 2.6.27-2, despite that 2.6.27-1 behaved remarkably stable and would reboot without a problem. I tried to remove cups and it's ancestors, by running 'sudo apt-get remove cups*'. Unfortunately this removed a huge amount of core utilities, such as gnome-terminal, network-manager and such. I tried to repair it from a previous kernel by sudo apt-get install cups*, but this works only partially, I don't know which packages are all missing and I don't know how to detour all of the build dependency problems. So now I am making another partition to install alfa three and upgrade it, to a point where I can make a full APTon image. Then I can try to rescue my system, but the repartitioning goes real slow. Sorry for that intermezzo, I just wanted to say that I cannot remove any memory right now, since my machine is running. Anyway, what I wanted to say is, when I go into BIOS on start up, I am not able to change the memory manually, it is fixed to 3 GB max. I think I recall that I used both chips separately a couple of years ago, and found that they were both intact. I will check on this once my repartitioning is done. I also recall that once I downgraded to 2GB, that the correct memory was displayed again. It was now displayed in black, like the rest of the BIOS settings, and not in blue and unable to select, as previously, when fixed to 3 GB. Now I have this 3 GB setting again in BIOS, although only having one single ubuntu 8.10 partition with Vista Ultimate and OSX Tiger in VirtualBox 1.6.4. So clearly the OS2 BIOS setting was somehow not overwritten. Now this is funny since I upgraded to Intrepid from hardy, so I don't thing this is an intrepid issue. Also since ubuntu should work on 4 GB instead of 3 GB for the 32-bit CPU's, I really doubt that Intrepid would recognise the wrong amount of memory by itself. When I now run memtest with 4 GB installed, also 3 GB memory is found plus error codes, for no good reason. First all memory comes out clean, the remainder is all corrupted, just as it was two years ago with vista. Anyway, I just wanted to ask to you people, how many are running dual boots, or have wiped out a previous Microsoft partition? It could be that Microsoft changes something to OS2 BIOS, which cannot be overwritten by ubuntu (8.10 and possibly previous versions). Cheers, Thomas.
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