Re: Only 3.2G ram out of 4G seen in an i386 box

[Robert Hancock]

Thomas Stewart wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a Dell Optiplex GX280, a Pentium 4 with an Intel chipset. It has
> 4G of ram. The problem is I can only see 3.2G, even tho the bios reports
> 4G.

There was a thread on this subject a little while ago. Essentially it is 
a chipset limitation (i.e. lack of support for memory hole remapping, 
memory hoisting, whatever you want to call it) and there's nothing that 
can really be done about it. Even a 64-bit kernel will have the same 
problem.

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