Randall R Schulz wrote:
One possible, even probable problem is the physical address range in which I/O device registers are presented to the operating system. In machines that can address only 4 GB of physical address space, the range from 3-4 GB typically holds these addresses. If the BIOS, the mainboard hardware, the CPU and the kernel are all equipped to support the so-called Physical Address Extensions (PAE), then these I/O addresses can be placed at a higher physical address and the 3-4 GB range can be used for RAM.
Most systems that support PAE have a BIOS option to disable it, lest software or CPUs that don't support it be rendered unable to access any device registers at all.
You'll have to peruse the BIOS settings (or the BIOS manual) to find this (putative) option and then, assuming its there, set it appropriately.
The whole thing, including the wires in the board.
Have a look here, for starters:
<http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/2005/08/05/is3gbenough>
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Randall, I think you are spot on in your response. It is OS related. The BIOS page shows all 4096M recognized and available. Neither the 10.0 default kernel or XP will use any more than 3072. I haven't tried the big-smp kernel yet. I have a spare 250G drive I'll throw in and load 10.3 on with the smp kernel and see how that goes. Thanks! -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org