[lug] Why doesn't any OS see my memory?

[Hugh Brown]

One possible explanation is that there's an onboard video card that is
"sharing" the system ram and stealing 128 or 256MB.

Hugh

On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Michael Hirsch wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> We have a bunch of newish Dell workstations with 4 gig of RAM. The BIOS sees
> it all. But when we boot to Linux or Windows only about 3.5 Gig is there. I
> mean that the various tools to display the RAM should only 3.5 Gig.
> Actually, Windows and Linux show slightly different amounts, but both are
> significantly below 4 gig.
>
> Is this normal? Has anyone else seen this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
>