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 7E79A1381FA for ; Thu, 22 May 2014 02:43:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D9DADE08C2; Thu, 22 May 2014 02:43:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wraeth.id.au (wraeth.id.au [106.187.101.125]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4A8AE081B for ; Thu, 22 May 2014 02:43:48 +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 0109CC765 for ; Thu, 22 May 2014 02:43:46 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <537D6460.5090802@wraeth.id.au> Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 12:43:44 +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> <537D34B3.7070204@wraeth.id.au> In-Reply-To: <537D34B3.7070204@wraeth.id.au> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 761efd5c-fecc-4ca3-90ca-03e2c4476e98 X-Archives-Hash: 39cf31624546077259a1e9b229f876e1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 22/05/14 09:20, wraeth wrote: > 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. Just had another thought, too: you could check what the BIOS reports either by entering the BIOS configuration and going to the system information area, or by inspecting your machines POST output (the diagnostic information that is displayed during boot, sometimes hidden by a splash screen with "Press [something] to show details". cheers wraeth -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlN9ZGAACgkQXcRKerLZ91mfFgD/RljFu05+0ymLJrOs8BRUvTji bk1s4RhOGroibx8GaMkA/2xZjYptJrj7PM+7ebw+2FN0juGKFZQyQ5VrL81yYn0z =eRY0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----