From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 16 8:34:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc3.on.home.com (ha1.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDA1714FE2 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 08:34:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from a.genkin@utoronto.ca) Received: from main.wgaf.net ([24.114.152.71]) by mail.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.02 201-229-111-106) with ESMTP id <19991216163230.QKSX15480.mail.rdc3.on.home.com@main.wgaf.net> for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 08:32:30 -0800 Received: from antipode by main.wgaf.net with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 11ydrP-0000TF-00; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 11:34:35 -0500 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] 64M recognized as 16M References: X-Face: 0=A/O5-+sE[Tf%X>rYr?Y5LD4,:^'jaJ!4jC&UR*ZrrK2>^`g22Qeb]!:d;}2YJ|Hq"LHdF OX`jWX|AT-WVFQ(TPhFVak)0nt$aEdlOq=1~D,:\z5QlVOrZ2(H,mKg=Xr|'VlHA="r Organization: Wgaf From: Arcady Genkin Date: 16 Dec 1999 11:34:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: David Scheidt's message of "Thu, 16 Dec 1999 10:20:29 -0600 (CST)" Message-ID: <87emcmhmjo.fsf@main.wgaf.net> Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Scheidt writes: > > I tried upgrading RAM on a P233 computer by adding a 64M 168-pin > > module (the system already has 32M), but the module is recognized as > > 16M only. My mobo (an ASUS P/I-P55TVP4) is supposed to handle SDRAM > > modules upto 64M (according to manual). > > Add > options MAXMEM="(96*1024)" > > to your kernel config, assuming it is 96 MB of RAM you have in the box. > This is a common problem on older boxes with lots of memory. I must have been unclear in my original post. It's the BIOS that doesn't recognize the RAM in the first place. The memory count on power-up only goes to 16M. FWIW, the mobo has an Intel 430VX chipset. Any ideas? -- Arcady Genkin http://wgaf.dyndns.org "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message