[ale] Why doesn't any OS see my memory?

[jim.d.barlow at intel.com (Barlow, Jim D)]

Sounds like the memory reserved for the PCI-E buffers.   The chipset
reserves significant memory for this purpose.    - Jim

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
To: ale at ale.org
Michael Hirsch
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 4:18 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] Why doesn't any OS see my memory?


Sorry to interrupt everyone's trolling for Aaron, but I have an actual
technical question.

We have a bunch of newish Dell workstations with 4 gig of RAM.  The BIOS
sees it all.  But when we boot to Linux or Windows only about 3.5 Gig is
there.  I mean that the various tools to display the RAM should only 3.5
Gig.  Actually, Windows and Linux show slightly different amounts, but
both are significantly below 4 gig.

Is this normal?  Has anyone else seen this?

Thanks,

Michael

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