Only half of RAM detected on MSI P55-GD65

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 11/22/2010 07:14 AM, David Kramer wrote:
> On 11/21/2010 02:35 PM, Rich Braun wrote:
>> An update to the newest BIOS release (1.10) does fix the bizarre power=
-cycling
>> issue.  But the RAM issue remains.  (BIOS splash-screen and other menu=
s report
>> all the RAM I installed, but Linux uses only half the available amount=
,
>> whether I install 2 modules or 4; there is a lot of chatter online abo=
ut
>> "reserved memory", a BIOS feature called "memory remapping" which is n=
ot
>> selectable in the MSI BIOS, bent CPU socket pins, and on and on...)
> Is it possible you're using one of those video cards that steals main
> RAM instead of having its own?
At work we have 5 systems with identical mother boards (Supermicro).
When I was upgrading to 64GB, 4 or the systems would use the 4GB
memories (after flashing a new BIOS), but 1 system was stuck with 1GB
sticks. We just decided to leave it at 16GB. Note that the memories I
used were listed on the SuperMicro site for compatibility.

The one issue with Rich's system are that the memories are 2 different
speeds. What if Rich reversed the order of the memories.

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