[ltp] X60 hardware questions (no C4 state, only 3015 out of 4096 GB)

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Michael Gaber wrote:
> >2. Only 3015 MB of the 4096 MB of RAM is available to Linux.
> >According to thinkwiki, this is because of "chipset limitations",
> >but the BIOS does see it all. That puzzles me somewhat.
> 
> i think the bios simply reads what the chip tells it, which is 4G
> but afaik you'll have bad luck with a *60 and using >3G Ram

4GB of RAM using two 2GB modules will be faster, and draw more power.  But
you still can use only 3GB.

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