Re: OT: Strange memory reading (hardware)

2011-06-17 Thread Robert
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:18:53 +0100 Graeme Dargie wrote: Graeme Thanks for taking the time to reply. > > The BIOS if it has shown 4096mb at post in the past would suggest > that it is up to date at least enough to deal with 4gb of ram. I > would say the likely hood of all 4 ram sticks developing

RE: OT: Strange memory reading (hardware)

2011-06-17 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robert Sent: 17 June 2011 00:06 To: Chuck Swiger Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Strange memory reading (hardware) On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:11:22

Re: OT: Strange memory reading (hardware)

2011-06-16 Thread Robert Bonomi
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Re: OT: Strange memory reading (hardware)

2011-06-16 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > As for not being able to access all 4GB, this is a FAQ. > If you run a 32-bit system, the top gigabyte or so of address space is > reserved for memory mapped I/O reservations like AGP, PCIe, etc. > > If your hardware is capable of running in

Re: OT: Strange memory reading (hardware)

2011-06-16 Thread Robert
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:11:22 -0700 Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jun 16, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Robert wrote: > > I have tested with all of the sticks installed and with one at a > > time. When all of the sticks are installed, BIOS show a total of > > 2752 MB of RAM. If any of the sticks are installed alon

Re: OT: Strange memory reading (hardware)

2011-06-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 16, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Robert wrote: > I have tested with all of the sticks installed and with one at a time. > When all of the sticks are installed, BIOS show a total of 2752 MB of > RAM. If any of the sticks are installed alone in any of the four slots, > BIOS then shows 960 MB instead of t

OT: Strange memory reading (hardware)

2011-06-16 Thread Robert
Greetings I have a strange problem with memory on one of my computers. I have recently converted this computer to a NAS server. It is an Asus A8N-VM MB running freenas amd64. I have 4 one Gig memory sticks installed and as well as I can remember, it had always seen the 4 Gig of RAM. Most recently