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Date:      Thu, 22 May 2003 11:57:42 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        "Wm. Allen Vonderschmidt" <allen@vonderschmidt.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RAM in a Compaq 2500.
Message-ID:  <20030522165741.GB1694@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <000e01c3207b$2e02d670$140a0aac@avlaptop>
References:  <000e01c3207b$2e02d670$140a0aac@avlaptop>

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In the last episode (May 22), Wm. Allen Vonderschmidt said:
> 	I have a Compaq 2500 with 256MB of RAM installed.  I have
> removed the Win2K server installed and replaced it with FreeBSD
> 4.8-RELEASE.  According to sysctl I seem to only have 12MB of RAM
> (hw.physmem: 12099584).  Win2K was seeing all 256MB until it was
> replaced.  Any suggestions as to where to check for the disconnect?
> 	Thanks in advance.

Compaq's don't return the right values to the BIOS memory calls, so you
have to override the results.  Try adding this to /boot/loader.conf:

hw.physmem="256M"

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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