8GB memory not supported
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Mon Mar 9 20:04:06 UTC 2009
John Summerfield wrote:
> saqib butt wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> I have Intel Pentium Dual Core E2180 / 2 GHz processor. i just
>> upgraded my
>> system with 4 memory sticks i.e. 8GB of RAM due to my requirements.
>>
>> Now the issue that i am facing is that my 64bit fedora system does not
>> showing and supporting more than 3.2 gigs of RAM when i consult
>> "/proc/meminfo", "free -m" and "top".
>>
>> Also I am getting the following system prompt,
>>
>> =====
>>
>> Kernel failure message 1:
>> WARNING: BIOS bug: CPU MTRRs don't cover all of memory, losing 4800MB of
>> RAM.
>
> This explains why you don't see all of RAM. Did you try a BIOS update?
> You could also ask your hardware vendor for an explanation of why it's
> not working.
>
>
>
>
Ditto on this. I had a brand new motherboard and it wouldn't recognize
8GB. A BIOS update and all was well.
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Robin Laing
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