[SOLVED] system recognize 1755 of ram instead of 2GB

slacknatcher · 2010-02-08 04:58:04

hello folks

i got a brand new PC armed by myself,

i got a little problem when i was checking he amount of ram with "lshw" it says that i got 1755 MB when i bought a 2 GB memory, i don' think that the memory has a problem, why arch doesn't recognize my ram?

here is the output of lshw

WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.                        
H/W path      Device  Class       Description                              
=============================================                              
                      system      Computer                                 
/0                    bus         Motherboard                              
/0/0                  memory      1755MiB System memory                    
/0/1                  processor   AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 945 Processor       
/0/100                bridge      RS780 Host Bridge                        
/0/100/1              bridge      RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx)        
/0/100/1/5            display     Radeon HD 3300 Graphics                  
/0/100/1/5.1          multimedia  RS780 Azalia controller                  
/0/100/6              bridge      RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2)    
/0/100/6/0    eth0    network     RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
/0/100/7              bridge      RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 3)     
/0/100/7/0            storage     JMB361 AHCI/IDE                           
/0/100/7/0.1          storage     JMB361 AHCI/IDE                           
/0/100/11             storage     SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [IDE mode]    
/0/100/12             bus         SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
/0/100/12.1           bus         SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
/0/100/12.2           bus         SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
/0/100/13             bus         SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
/0/100/13.1           bus         SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
/0/100/13.2           bus         SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
/0/100/14             bus         SBx00 SMBus Controller
/0/100/14.1           storage     SB700/SB800 IDE Controller
/0/100/14.2           multimedia  SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
/0/100/14.3           bridge      SB700/SB800 LPC host controller
/0/100/14.4           bridge      SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
/0/100/14.5           bus         SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller
/0/101                bridge      K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] HyperTran
/0/102                bridge      K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Address M
/0/103                bridge      K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] DRAM Cont
/0/104                bridge      K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Miscellan
/0/105                bridge      K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Link Cont

some idea why is this?
thanks in advance

Last edited by slacknatcher (2010-02-08 06:12:56)

flamelab · 2010-02-08 05:01:40

VGA shared memory, perhaps ? .. hmm

slacknatcher · 2010-02-08 06:12:38

DAMn! you are right !, it fits completly,

damn i feel like a moron XD

thank flamelab i'm going to mark this SOLVED

flamelab · 2010-02-08 06:37:01

You should reconsider adding more RAM (at least 4 GB, that means +2) and 64bit Arch

Last edited by flamelab (2010-02-08 06:37:14)

slacknatcher · 2010-02-08 06:48:25

yeah, it would be nice but my system never gets over the 800 Mb in ram, also i'm in arch 64

why people use arch 32 even knowing that they got x86_64 cpus? what are they scare of?

sorry for my english :S

flamelab · 2010-02-08 07:00:25

The fear of the unknown, that's what it is.
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As for 4 GB RAM, it could be a nice investment right now

Staerseus · 2010-02-09 16:51:42

flamelab wrote:

The fear of the unknown, that's what it is.
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As for 4 GB RAM, it could be a nice investment right now

I've always thought, that the memory is smaller because some devil words like "alocating" "locating" etc... And I thought that graphic card...

Oh yes, that gives sense... But I don't believe, that my Intel 4500MHD card "eats" only 0,1 GB even I am using KWin and KDE... I have 64 bit (I know it makes some counting faster and some slower, when I do fractal graphics, does using of 64 system making the rendering faster) and 3 GB RAM (2048 + 1024MB) and the system shows me only 2,9 GB.

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#1 2010-02-08 04:58:04

[SOLVED] system recognize 1755 of ram instead of 2GB

#2 2010-02-08 05:01:40

Re: [SOLVED] system recognize 1755 of ram instead of 2GB

#3 2010-02-08 06:12:38

Re: [SOLVED] system recognize 1755 of ram instead of 2GB

#4 2010-02-08 06:37:01

Re: [SOLVED] system recognize 1755 of ram instead of 2GB

#5 2010-02-08 06:48:25

Re: [SOLVED] system recognize 1755 of ram instead of 2GB

#6 2010-02-08 07:00:25

Re: [SOLVED] system recognize 1755 of ram instead of 2GB

#7 2010-02-09 16:51:42

Re: [SOLVED] system recognize 1755 of ram instead of 2GB

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