Hello Gryphon,
On 02 Nov 14 19:51, Gryphon wrote to All:
Gr> This isn't a software question so much as it is a hardware question.
Gr> I have an older Acer Aspire R1600. It came stock with 1MB of ram.
Gr> I'm running Debian Whezey on it.
Gr> Today I install 2 2GB dimms for a total of 4GB. However, when I do a
Gr> top or a memfree, it shows only 3GB.
Gr> total used free shared buffers
Gr> cached
Gr> Mem: 3114340 619464 2494876 0 49556
Gr> 459188 -/+ buffers/cache: 110720 3003620
Gr> Swap: 1830908 0 1830908
Gr> DMI Decode shows this:
Gr> Handle 0x0010, DMI type 17, 27 bytes
Gr> Array Handle: 0x000E
Gr> Size: 2048 MB
Gr> Speed: 800 MHz
Gr> Handle 0x0012, DMI type 17, 27 bytes
Gr> Array Handle: 0x000E
Gr> Size: 2048 MB
Gr> Speed: 800 MHz
Gr> Any thoughts as to why it only shows 3GB?
My only thought would be that that's all the motherboard supports. Kind of like
my Athlon64 motherboard I'm using for my BBS machine. It has two dimm slots,
but the most I can put in it is 2x1gb sticks of memory as it doesn't support
any more than that. I can only assume if I were to put two 2gb sticks it would
still read only 2gb of ram.
Regards,
Nick
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