I am running openSUSE 13.2 on a system with a DG965WHMKR Intel motherboard. Up to now, I had a 4GB ram composed of four 1GB-DDR2 667 MHz Kingston.
I have changed these elements by four new 2GB-DDR2 667 MHz Kingston.
The BIOS reports an amount of 8 GB, but the OS reports 3.2 GB.
The following commands give:
piantino@Piantino-9:~> uname -a
Linux Piantino-9 3.16.7-29-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 23 00:46:04 UTC 2015 (6be6a97) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Hi
So all the ‘usable’ parts converted from hex to decimal indicates 8GB of ram, what about the output from the following command (run as root and may need to be installed;
On the same PC, I can run different OSs, each one being placed on a different hard disk. I can run Meant, Debian and XP Pro and I have seen that these OSs detect also only 3.2 GB of RAM. It seems that this is a BIOS problem. Am I wrong?
I will try to make an update for my BIOS.
On Wed 04 Nov 2015 10:26:01 AM CST, Gian-Piero wrote:
malcolmlewis;2734812 Wrote:
> Hi
> Is the BIOS upto date, everything is default in the BIOS for the RAM,
> no tweaks etc?
Hello, thank you for your answer.
On the same PC, I can run different OSs, each one being placed on a
different hard disk. I can run Meant, Debian and XP Pro and I have seen
that these OSs detect also only 3.2 GB of RAM. It seems that this is a
BIOS problem. Am I wrong?
I will try to make an update for my BIOS.
Hi
As long as the ones you tried were 64bit versions, I would guess it’s a
BIOS issue. They are 677MHz devices (check part number on device)? I see
on the specs for the motherboard that if they are 800MHz (which
can run at 677MHz) devices it will only work with 4GB of RAM…
Intel do provide an iso image to boot from for BIOS updates as well…
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> As long as the ones you tried were 64bit versions, I would guess it’s a
> BIOS issue. They are 677MHz devices (check part number on device)? I see
> on the specs for the motherboard that if they are 800MHz (which
> can run at 677MHz) devices it will only work with 4GB of RAM…
965 motherboard specifications that describe such a limitation usually have a
BIOS option or other provision to limit 800 RAM to behave as if 667 (limit
speed actually used) so that all 8 can be utilized, often automatically. As
owner of several 965 boards, I find this particular limitation rather
bizarre. I have 8G currently installed in only one. Its manual describes the
same limitation, yet memtest86+ says all 8G is accessible and running at 800.
Thanks to all of you, for your comments and suggestions.
All the components of the hardware were correct. There was a BIOS problem. By upgrading it, the 8GB of RAM are usable in all OSs.
Thank you again