10 Jan
2005
10 Jan
'05
17:36
Ken Siersma wrote:
What is the chipset of your motherboard? I have a Asus A8V with a Via chipset that states that "with 4 GB of RAM the memory available will be a little less than 4GB due to the Southbridge resource allocation".
Alex
It is a Tyan S2885 Thunder K8W board - chipset AMD-8151.
If you don't have it already, get V2.02 of the tyan bios. There's an option in there that helps quite a bit. I have 8GB of ram and Suse sees virtually all of it. If I don't enable this option then it only sees about 7GB, so it makes a huge difference. I can't remember the name of the option. But I think it should be set to 'discreet' if I remember correctly. I think its under the memory configuration section. Mark