From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (unknown [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76E7F1381FA for ; Wed, 21 May 2014 23:20:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7816E092C; Wed, 21 May 2014 23:20:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wraeth.id.au (wraeth.id.au [106.187.101.125]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A22A3E08A1 for ; Wed, 21 May 2014 23:20:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cerberus.civica.com.au (watch.civica.com.au [203.56.2.254]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by wraeth.id.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E27C9C765 for ; Wed, 21 May 2014 23:20:21 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <537D34B3.7070204@wraeth.id.au> Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 09:20:19 +1000 From: wraeth User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable References: <20140521233751.319ef024@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <20140521233751.319ef024@weird.wonkology.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 664b74fb-ef7d-4424-b6b5-fb01a8ab3d29 X-Archives-Hash: 1aef97d58425dd909e457ced6dae6109 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 22/05/14 07:37, Alex Schuster wrote: > Does this ring any bells? I'm out of ideas. Except than pulling out the 4 > GB, or trying another mainboard. Just a quick suggestion to help rule it out: try booting a LiveCD or other "one-size-fits-most" medium and seeing if your full memory is registering there. If it is, then it's not a hardware malfunction; if it doesn't, then either you've got bad hardware or a configuration issue in your BIOS. cheers wraeth -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlN9NLMACgkQXcRKerLZ91knaQD/VGNVPzB+voalyCX4GiU9e3Zy oz82/X8k+BlDFqhUulMA/AqNcFqqAIXOBUym1DSJfJWd5eu5gBpia+G3cTjGLkt6 =My0D -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----