memory report discrepancy

[Tim]

On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 03:44 -0700, Dave Stevens wrote:
> I am running FC6 x86_64 on an ASUS socket 939 motherboard. I have
> installed 2x1g DDR2-400 chips and 2x512meg DDR2-400. This is a total
> of 3 gigs but I consistently get a report of 2500 megs of installed
> RAM. Anyone able to suggest why this is? 

Do you know if your motherboard is supposed to be able to handle that?

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[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386

Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.

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