[ltp] The mystery of missing RAM

[David A. Desrosiers]

On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 21:19 -0700, Bernard Tremblay wrote:
> Did you check in the BIOS setup if your hole 4Gb was seen.  It should
> be totally seen by the BIOS. May be there is other stuff that sit on
> your motherboard (sound card, network card, modem, IBM stuff ?...)
> and this use some memory from the main board.

I'm skeptical. Why would a modem use physical system RAM? Why would a
sound card use physical system RAM? 

More-importantly, why did this design change? 

MY T42p has none of these problems, and sees the full 4GB of RAM, runs a
32-bit OS, and has an integrated graphics adapter. 

Now that I've "upgraded" to an Intel Core 2 Duo, discrete (external)
graphics, etc. I lose 25% of my physical RAM. I may sell these two
laptops and go back to my T42p if I can't solve this.


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