Am Mo, den 16.05.2005 schrieb Thomas Cameron um 17:58: > I noticed that when it boots, the system counts 4GB memory, but after > POST is says that there are only 3.6GB. I called HP about it and they > said that the system reserves a chunk of memory for each PCI card. I > pulled the video and sound cards, and sure enough, the system saw more > memory. This is a limitation of the 32bit world. The system I/O address space has to be mapped into the available memory space, from top limit 4GB down. Often this is even a fixed memory space of 512MB. > So my question is - what's up with this? Why do none of my other > machines act this way? I've got workstations from Dell and other > servers from HP that don't do this. Those machines don't have PCI-X > slots though. I assume that is relevant. Anyone got an explanation as > to why this machine is reserving so much darned memory for the PCI > cards? I am seriously tempted to yank the motherboard and drop in > another one from Intel or someone like that. I paid a lot of money for > the 4GB memory and I want all of it, you know? :-) Those other systems may have PAE implementations in hardware / BIOS? > Thomas Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.14_FC2smp Serendipity 18:14:29 up 2 days, 17:46, load average: 0.11, 0.11, 0.10
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