FC 3 shows only 3.56gb memory out of 4gb?

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Thu Apr 21 19:51:47 UTC 2005


On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 09:35:57AM -0700, Koustubha Kale wrote:
 > I have installed FC3 on a tyan k8w with dual opteron
 > 242 & 4gb ram
 > FC3 only shows total physicl memory as 3.56gb.
 > Any ideas why?
 > 
 > With warm regards
 > Koustubha Kale

Most likely the PCI window. It needs to be in the lower 4GB
of address space.  Some BIOS's offer an option to remap
RAM above this hole.  Check Tyan's site to see if they have
an update.

		Dave




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