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{ 2008 01 28 }

PC problem with memory

So it turns out I have led a rather spoiled life, racking up system time on big-endian systems from a variety of UNIX vendors… I am baffled by some of the little oddities of x86 architecture.

I’ll buy beers for the geek that can help me get my Norhtec Microserver GP+ (SiS 55x series x86 chip set) to recognize all 512MB of memory I just bought for it and installed. For some reason both the BIOS and the OpenSuSE 10.3 operating system I am running only see 247MB of the 512MB SO-DIMM. This probably has something to do with the silly extended memory architecture, but I am baffled.

Any help?

Posted by snolan on Monday, January 28, 2008, at 10:18 pm. Filed under Computers. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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