RE: [TCLUG:21037] recognizing memory

[<andy@theasis.com>]

I seem to recall some old motherboards that required you to set jumpers
indicating the amount of memory. However, I may be barking mad. Do you
have a manual? If not, may be worth looking for old specs on gateway's web
site.

Andy

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Sielaff, Bruce wrote:

> : I just installed linux (redhat 6.2 - kernel 2.2.14-6.1.1) on an old
> Gateway
> : (P5-90) which has 80 MB of RAM (2-8MB and 2-32MB SIMs), but linux
> apparently
> : only sees a portion of it:
> :
> : from /var/logs/dmesg:
> : Memory: 13336K/15360K available (1080K kernel code, 412K reserved, 468K
> : data, 64K init, 0K bigmem)
> :
> : I tried reversing the order of the SIMS, I tried removing the 8MB SIMs and
> : only using the 32MB SIMs, but nothing changed.  Just prior to installing
> : linux, I had Windows NT running on the box and it claimed to see 77MB
> during
> : bootup.
> :
> : Any idea what is going on here?  How do I get linux to see all of the
> : memory?  I am new to linux, so maybe I am just overlooking something
> : obvious.
> :
> : Thanks for any help.
> :
> : Bruce
> :
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