How to get MINT to see MORE RAM!

[xwin78]

I recently upgrades my RAM and now have a total of 4 GB. I know about the x86 hardware limitation, but my system still only shows 2 GB of RAM! What do I need to do?

[Mattd4AX3]

Does the ram upgrade show up in other OSes, such as windows or other linux distro?
What kind of computer do you have also?

As far as this being a MINT only problem I really wouldn't know, I just started using Linux a few weeks ago.

[xwin78]

I can see the extra ram in a windows xp 32.

Here is my system:

ASUS p5B-deluxe (Intel p965)
Intel XEON E3110 @ 4.0 ghz
4 GB OZC PC2-6400
Nvidia 8800 GT 512
Creative X-fi (BUMMER, STILL NO LINUX SUPPORT)

I am sure this is not a mint only issue it is 1st of all an x86 hardware issue, but I have read that 32-bit Linux can address up to 4 GB of RAM

Thanks for any help

[rustyman99]

This thread might be of help; http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=375853

Regular Linux 32/64bit kernels can indeed see 4GB of ram, with the right kernel (PAE) and providing your hardware supports it, it'll see upto 64GB

Good luck

[xwin78]

Thanks for the help! I have not tried any of the help form the above listed post as it was mostly from the last UBUNTU build. Interestingly enough my 4GB configuration (4 x 1 GB ) would only show 2 GB in mint, as i said before, but i swapped the 4 x1 GB for 2 x 2 GB and now mint shows 3 GB. I don't have an answer to this on...I'll keep figuring..and hopefully will have it fixed before Ellysa.

any other help would be great!

[Fred]

xwin78,

After reading through the posts, especially your last post, I feel reasonably confident in saying that it is a compatibility issue between the proprietary mobo firmware drivers and Linux.

I would look and see if you can find any firmware or mobo documentation that mentions Linux compatibility errata and work arounds.

Fred