From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 11 04:23:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA25077 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 04:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA25070 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 04:23:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA07890 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 06:24:32 GMT Received: from buffnet5.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa26938; 11 Jun 96 7:26 EDT Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 07:26:12 -0400 (EDT) From: steve hovey To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cant see that ram In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Sat, 8 Jun 1996, Superuser wrote: > > > I put in 128MB ram total on my 2.0.5.R > > > > In the config file I set options "MAXMEM=131072" > > > > and recompiled - the damn thing says real memory=100270080 and avilable > > mem 95395840 - why doesnt it see more? Any ideas? > > Dead SIMM? > > 97MB found, 93MB available I dont see how it could be - the right value is in the cmos (its a pentium 100) and the memory check/ram role up when it is booted is fine. Plus if I had a dead simm would the machine take out a pair of simms, or error on me?