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Only 1G out of 8G showing up?
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 9:55 pm
by beastmanh
Hello all, thanks in advance for any advice you might have.
I just got an HP ENVY dv7, with an intel corei7 and 8 gigs of ram. I installed 64bit Mint Maya on it and completely wiped out Windows. After noticing it was running a bit sluggish I found that mint is only picking up, less than one gig of ram..
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~ # free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 907 801 106 0 2 187
-/+ buffers/cache: 611 295
Swap: 8085 186 7899
I'm hoping that this is just a solved issue that I wasn't able to find anywhere, but so far I haven't had any luck.. The Mem is showing up in the bios just fine, but not in mint. Anyone know why this would be happening?
Thanks a ton in advance!
Re: Only 1G out of 8G showing up?
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 4:54 am
by xenopeek
Please run the following commands and share the output here.
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sudo dmidecode -t memory
inxi -Fxz
Re: Only 1G out of 8G showing up?
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 9:10 am
by beastmanh
Thanks for the response! Here is the output:
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$ sudo dmidecode -t memory
# dmidecode 2.11
SMBIOS 2.7 present.
Handle 0x0000, DMI type 16, 23 bytes
Physical Memory Array
Location: System Board Or Motherboard
Use: System Memory
Error Correction Type: None
Maximum Capacity: 16 GB
Error Information Handle: 0x0009
Number Of Devices: 2
Handle 0x0001, DMI type 17, 34 bytes
Memory Device
Array Handle: 0x0000
Error Information Handle: 0x0003
Total Width: 64 bits
Data Width: 64 bits
Size: 4096 MB
Form Factor: SODIMM
Set: None
Locator: Bottom-Slot 1(top)
Bank Locator: BANK 0
Type: DDR3
Type Detail: Synchronous
Speed: 1600 MHz
Manufacturer: A-DATA Technology
Serial Number: 0000354C
Asset Tag: Unknown
Part Number: AM1U16BC4P2-B19H
Rank: 2
Configured Clock Speed: 1600 MHz
Handle 0x0005, DMI type 17, 34 bytes
Memory Device
Array Handle: 0x0000
Error Information Handle: 0x0007
Total Width: 64 bits
Data Width: 64 bits
Size: 4096 MB
Form Factor: SODIMM
Set: None
Locator: Bottom-Slot 2(under)
Bank Locator: BANK 2
Type: DDR3
Type Detail: Synchronous
Speed: 1600 MHz
Manufacturer: A-DATA Technology
Serial Number: 00003516
Asset Tag: Unknown
Part Number: AM1U16BC4P2-B19H
Rank: 2
Configured Clock Speed: 1600 MHz
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$ inxi -Fxz
System: Host:HP-ENVY-dv7-Notebook-PC Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.6.3)
Desktop: Gnome Distro: Linux Mint 13 Maya
Machine: System: Hewlett-Packard (portable) product: HP ENVY dv7 Notebook PC version: 088B110000305910000620100
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 181C version: 52.24 Bios: Insyde version: F.22 date: 11/02/2012
CPU: Quad core Intel Core i7-3630QM CPU (-HT-MCP-) cache: 6144 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 19157.2
Clock Speeds: 1: 1200.00 MHz 2: 1200.00 MHz 3: 1200.00 MHz 4: 1200.00 MHz 5: 1200.00 MHz 6: 1200.00 MHz 7: 1200.00 MHz 8: 1200.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel Ivy Bridge Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0
X.Org: 1.11.3 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1600x900@60.2hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card: Intel Panther Point High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: 1.0.24
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
driver: r8169 ver: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 2000 bus-ID: 05:00.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Card-2: Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230 driver: iwlwifi ver: in-tree: bus-ID: 04:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1000.2GB (1.8% used) 1: /dev/sda Hitachi_HTS54101 1000.2GB 0C
Partition: ID: / size: 923G used: 17G (2%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 8.48GB used: 0.01GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 46.0C mobo: 46.0C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 169 Uptime: 5:51 Memory: 521.5/907.9MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.6.3 Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.33
Re: Only 1G out of 8G showing up?
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 12:13 pm
by xenopeek
Let's start with installing the PAE kernel, because I think you have the default one still? The default kernel would be able to see only 4 GiB RAM, and perhaps something is causing it to see even less. The PAE kernel can see up to 64 GiB RAM.
To install it, open a terminal and run the following two commands:
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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-image-686-pae linux-headers-686-pae
Re: Only 1G out of 8G showing up?
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 3:25 pm
by beastmanh
Sounds like a good start, but I got an error trying to install the kernel. The update went fine, but it doesn't seem to be finding the kernel..
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sudo apt-get install linux-image-686-pae linux-headers-686-pae
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package linux-headers-686-pae is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Unable to locate package linux-image-686-pae
E: Package 'linux-headers-686-pae' has no installation candidate
Is there a typo or something? Maybe a different repo?
Re: Only 1G out of 8G showing up?
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 4:33 pm
by xenopeek
Drats. I think that is for LMDE and I got it mixed up
Do the following instead, that will work:
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sudo apt-get install linux-image-generic-pae linux-headers-generic-pae
Re: Only 1G out of 8G showing up?
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 5:31 pm
by beastmanh
WOOOT! That got it!
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$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 7944 676 7268 0 43 442
-/+ buffers/cache: 190 7754
Swap: 8085 0 8085
Thanks SO much xenopeek
Re: Only 1G out of 8G showing up?
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 5:40 pm
by xenopeek
Aw yes
I still got it. Enjoy the new install, it should run a lot better now
You might want to consider installing Linux Mint 64-bit in the future, instead of the 32-bit install you did now. Though 64-bit will use some more memory for each task, it will be faster for certain tasks as well (especially mathematical actions on large data sets; like archiving, encrypting, video transcoding, rendering, and so on). 64-bit wouldn't have had this problem either
Re: Only 1G out of 8G showing up?
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 8:41 pm
by homerscousin
I see. You said and thought you installed a 64 bit version but inxi indicates a 32 bit version. i686. You wanted the x64 version. If this is a new install, I'd download the correct 64 bit version and do a clean install now rather than waiting. I think you and your system would be happier.