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

slacknatcher
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From: Chile
Registered: 2009-07-08
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[SOLVED] system recognize 1755 of ram instead of 2GB

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)


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

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

VGA shared memory, perhaps ? .. hmm

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

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

DAMn! you are right !, it fits completly,

damn i feel like a moron XD

thank flamelab i'm going to mark this SOLVED


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

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

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

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

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

slacknatcher
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From: Chile
Registered: 2009-07-08
Posts: 55

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

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


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

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

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 wink

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

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

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 wink

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.


Thanks for the GNU/Linux. EDIT:Thanks for the GNU/Linux, Linux guru, for the manuals and wikis.

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