On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 15:06 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 10:35 -0500, Mike Coan wrote:
The specs for the motherboard indicate that if all 4 DIMM slots are populated, then the memory must run at 166 Mz as opposed to 200 Mz. The board seems to recognize this as the POST says "128 bit Dual channel DDR at 166 Mz" When only two DIMMs are used the POST screen says "128 bit dual channel DDR at 200 Mz.
Have you tried just setting something like mem=512M as a boot parameter for the installer? Then see what happens once you are installed.
Lastly, just a thought, are you installing the 32bit or 64bit version? I don't know the details, but as far as I know 32bit machines can't handle (or can handle but cannot properly use) all of 4GB of Memory. Anyone know more about this?
There are lots of 32bit machines with far more than 2Gb or RAM, it works (and uses it) just fine. You can get IBM xSeries Xeon machines with 16Gb of RAM or higher.