From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 16 21:56:08 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23E85106564A for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:56:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from traveling08@cox.net) Received: from fed1rmfepo102.cox.net (fed1rmfepo102.cox.net [68.230.241.144]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA3F68FC15 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:56:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fed1rmimpo02.cox.net ([70.169.32.72]) by fed1rmfepo101.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.01.04.00 201-2260-137-20101110) with ESMTP id <20110616211036.XEGD17030.fed1rmfepo101.cox.net@fed1rmimpo02.cox.net> for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:10:36 -0400 Received: from dell64 ([72.220.91.219]) by fed1rmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id wlAb1g00m4jy6EY04lAbTe; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:10:35 -0400 X-CT-Score: 0.00 X-CT-RefID: str=0001.0A02020A.4DFA714C.000D,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-CT-Spam: 0 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=SPmPLnc/YPzADk30Gyv1IeI7DxEcAgWbYPJMz2yeYQM= c=1 sm=1 a=psGcP66QiRcA:10 a=G8Uczd0VNMoA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=olICo1sKaMXbpqbYUd6B5g==:17 a=FRAN3z_KNnB9zMti78sA:9 a=Vsz6ik2fFBHHgstyK_YA:7 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=olICo1sKaMXbpqbYUd6B5g==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; none Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:10:30 -0700 From: Robert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110616141030.0f3dc5f3@dell64> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.22.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: OT: Strange memory reading (hardware) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:56:08 -0000 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 I had 9 current installed. The problem is not with freenas as it is absolutely hardware. 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 the 1024 one would expect. Quickly subtracting 960 from 1024 gets 64 MB missing. Hmmm, perhaps an address lead or data lead on the MB is open. This I can understand, but using any finagling factors I can think of, I can't get close to the missing total of 1344 MB (4096-2752). The freenas system runs quite well with the available memory but I was wondering if anyone could help me understand this problem. Thank you for reading this and i hope you are having a great day. Robert