Irvine Short wrote: [...]
and then later it says on the console something like: 256MB of RAM over 4GB ignored.
Seems silly to waste 256MB RAM so any hints would be appreciated here too.
How can you address more than 2^32 bytes of RAM with a 32 bit processor? :)
Yeah, I know about PAE, but it's a 4GB machine so why is there 256MB over the 4GB limit?
I dunno, if you count the chips what do you come up with?
I recently bought a whole pile of servers (HP DL380s if you've been following my trials and tribulations) that are designed to accept up to 6Gb on the motherboard. I think it's a bit of a gimmick really.
One of the servers came bundled with 4.5Gb RAM. We wanted 4Gb, but the machine comes with 512 by default (2x256 chips [1]). Our supplier just stuck in 4x1Gb chips without bothering to remove the existing chips. As the servers all had different chip sizes, 256Mb, 512 and 1Gb, by mixing and matching I was able to remove the wasted 512Mb and install it in another server. Maybe you can do something like that. Or put it on a shelf for spare parts.
David
[1] DIMMs, SIMMs, whatever they call them these days.
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