[mythtv-users] I've lost 1 gig of ram

Big Wave Dave bigwavedave at gmail.com
Thu Jan 22 05:21:33 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Claude Gélinas <claude at phyto.qc.ca> wrote:
> Le mercredi 21 janvier 2009 à 13:28 -0600, Stackpole, Chris a écrit :
>> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
>> > bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Claude Gélinas
>> > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:59 PM
>> > Subject: [mythtv-users] I've lost 1 gig of ram
>> >
>> > I just fire up a new FE/BE with 8 gig of ram but in the bios I get the
>> > following
>> >
>> > Installed memory 8192
>> > Usable memory 7167
>> >
>> > where is the missing gig ?
>> > Is it normal or what can I do to get it back
>> >
>> > motherboard is Asus M2N-SLI deluxe
>> > CPU is AMD phenom X4 black edition
>> [snip]
>>
>> Having just gone through this* with a M2N-E MB, I would recommend that you upgrade to the latest BIOS. I am not 100% certain how to do it for your MB, but for mine I just downloaded the BIOS file in a zipped format, extracted the zip to a USB thumbdrive, booted into the BIOS, and did the upgrade from the ASUS BIOS update utility inside the BIOS.
>>
>> I had only lost ~512MB of memory when I upgraded to 8GB, and it all shows up properly after the BIOS update. I also noticed that every BIOS release has added more/better processor support. I don't know if it will fix your problem, but it might.
>>
>> I don't recommend the BETA update. Stick with version 1502 (currently the most up-to-date stable for your MB).
>>
>> Have fun!
>> ~Stack~
>>
> I've flashed my bios to 1502 and it solve the missing cpu when enabling
> Amd Cool n Quiet option.
>
> I recover also 512 meg of ram. I'm now at  7684296 of 8192000 installed.
> I've tried to disable  all unneeded device but it change nothing.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Claude
>
What is your AGP Aperture set to in the BIOS?  Does your motherboard
have an IOMMU in the BIOS?

Dave


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