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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Only 4 of 8 GB usable
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 08:07:52 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <llui78$era$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140521233751.319ef024@weird.wonkology.org>

On 22/05/14 00:37, Alex Schuster wrote:
> So I installed another 4 GiB RAM into a Gentoo amd64 system that had 4 GiB
> already. But it still sees only 4 GiB, not 8 GiB:
>
> leela ~ # uname -a
> Linux leela 3.6.11-gentoo #3 SMP Mon Feb 4 15:37:48 CET 2013 x86_64 AMD
> A6-3500 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

Emerge sys-apps/memtest86+ and boot it (it should create a Grub entry). 
How much memory does it see/test?

Are there any memory settings in your BIOS? (Possibly related to GPU 
memory.)



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-26  5:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-21 21:37 [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable Alex Schuster
2014-05-21 23:20 ` wraeth
2014-05-22  1:38   ` Dale
2014-05-22  8:02     ` covici
2014-05-22  9:08     ` Neil Bothwick
2014-05-22  9:25       ` Dale
2014-05-22  2:43   ` wraeth
2014-05-22  8:10 ` Daniel Troeder
2014-05-26  5:07 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2014-05-27  3:19   ` [gentoo-user] " ny6p01
2014-06-08 18:43 ` Kai Krakow

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