Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 01:54:33 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Thomas Sparrevohn" <thomas.sparrevohn@btinternet.com>, "Bill Moran" <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: memory above 4Gb ignored Message-ID: <003201c74b67$233f1580$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <45C81892.6090701@ccstores.com><20070206072335.054e7429.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <3633930E-8D34-4A27-B16E-8932B4AE6F30@btinternet.com>
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you might check your bios settings for some weird memory reallocation but otherwise file a PR on this. Ted ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Sparrevohn" <thomas.sparrevohn@btinternet.com> To: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 6:12 PM Subject: Re: memory above 4Gb ignored > > On 6 Feb 2007, at 12:23, Bill Moran wrote: > > I don't know whether its related - I just got a brand new Dell XPS > 710 H2C with a QX6700 - The > system uses the Nvidia 590 chipset - It has 4GB memory and Two GTX > 8800 7xx MB > graphics cards even with PAE enabled it only finds 2,5GB - However I > am not sure how > well the Nvidia 590 for Intel Works - Identcpu states that there is > only 4MB of cache etc > > > > In response to Jim Pazarena <fquest@ccstores.com>: > > > >> I do not see any reference to resolving the > >> "786432K of memory above 4Gb ignored" anywhere in Google or > >> otherwise. > >> > >> I see references to it for FreeBSD 4.XX, but I am running 6.2, and > >> have > >> the same problem. > >> > >> Is there any easy solution? For a hoot, I installed SuSe 10.2 on > >> my machine > >> and it recognized the full 4Gb; FreeBSD does not. > > > > Your searches didn't find this?: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/ > > troubleshoot.html#PAE > > > > -- > > Bill Moran > > Collaborative Fusion Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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